On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:02, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:29:45PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Wow, that's interesting. I don't often hear that, people using Tcl in > > their work. > > I write open source code for a living -- Eventful sponsors my work on the > Apache Lucy search engine library, and that's where about 75% of my hours > go. > A volunteer showed up a little while ago who wants to add Tcl bindings for > Lucy. I'm teaching myself Tcl so that I can work with this volunteer more > effectively. > > > Sure you can, its a .tcl script, meaning you are giving the user the > > source whenever you are giving the user the program. So its even kind > > of BSD-ish because you can't give the user a GUI plugin without giving > > them the source, so you don't need to do anything else to distribute the > > source. Pd patches are the same idea. > > I am sincerely grateful for the pointer to this plugin and for your > generosity > with your time and support, but I assume that a miscommunication has > occurred > and I am not understanding your suggestion properly. I cannot take code > from > this plugin, make changes to adapt it for Vanilla, remove the GPL tag and > replace it with an implicit BSD license by submitting it to the patch > tracker. > That would not adhere to the original author's license, and it would be a > violation of copyright. > > If I wish to supply the proposed functionality for Vanilla my options are > either to create a new patch from scratch which cannot be considered a > "derivative work" of that plugin, or to track down all the original authors > of > that plugin, persuade them to issue their code under an additional BSD3 > license, and then once that process is complete, create a derivative work > and > submit it. > > Best, > > Marvin Humphrey > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > Hello Marvin and Welcome! I think you just went too theoretical... we're talking about (as far as I can understand) 2-10 lines of code which you wouldn't even copy-paste but study and learn and then use what you learned. That's not a derivative work, that's "looking at" the source, which is free as HC pointed it out. Andras
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