On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Marvin Humphrey 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.
Ah, nice deal. I wish Pd paid my bills, but I do spend most of my
paid dev time on free software as part of http://guardianproject.info
Perhaps you might also be interested in making a Pd library for using
Apache Lucy. :)
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.
Ah yes, that is true. Sorry, I forgot and thought you wanted to
distribute a plugin.
.hc
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