On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, 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.
The authors of LinuxSampler are of the position that all the GPLed code linked with LinuxSampler is their own (or otherwise created by a consenting party). Thus no violation. (I say this passively rather than stating it as fact only because I've not validated it myself— not because I disbelieve it). There would only be issues if LinuxSampler were combined with normal third party GPL code, like readline. This discussion arises every several months on the list. Is maintaining the non-free-software license really worth the trouble and annoyance? Might GPLv3's anti-tivoization requirements satisfy the concerns about embedded usage? It seems that the sampler business is simply dead now. Even software samplers do not appear to be all that commercially interesting, gigasampler is gone. Dedicated 'hardware' sample playback engines are impossible to find. Funny how as soon as sampling became effective limitless it almost vanished… IMO, the availability commercial embedded linuxsampler system, even one which played fast and loose with the intent of license, would be a social good as there is basically nothing available like that now. License violators can be bludgeoned into conformity, as the GPL-violations folks have shown. Oh well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
