Hi, We've been through this 'license incompatible' discussion before. The original owners of the code are able to modify portions of the GPL without 'breaking' it. Subsequent users/programmers are not. GrahamG
On 8/24/09, Luke Smith <mepis...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > After reading the GPL, I came to the conclusion that the non commercial > 'addon' isn't compatible. Now I'm no lawyer but if thats correct, > LinuxSampler is violating the GPL. Thus, any use of LinuxSampler would be > illegal. > > ----- Original Message ----- >> I think it will never be something serious but there are two >> friends that seem to be interested in hacking the sources, so want >> to be sure that I do it the right way and all pieces I take from other >> free >> software sources (lots of them, source is quite a mess right now) >> can be combined without incompatibilities before passing the source code >> to >> others. >> >> So far the GPLv3 seems to be the common license that glues all parts. > > IANAL etc etc but surely you can't combine GPL'd code (whatever > version) with Linuxsampler licenced code and then distribute it? If > the combined work were allowed to be used commercially this would > violate the Linuxsampler licence, but if not allowed then this would > violate the GPL licence. > > ~ Simon > > > > - L u k e W S m i t h > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Linuxsampler-devel mailing list Linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel
