On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:14:00PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:
Pd-extended as a whole is under the GPLv3, that's the easiest way to
think about it. Some sections of it are under the BSD License, some
under the Tcl License (which Pd was originally), some under GPLv2,
etc.
My personal thoughts on the license of what is in pd-extended.git are
more vague. Yes, the intention is for much/most of that code to
contributed back to Pd, but my only distribution of the whole thing
is
part of the Pd-extended package, which is GPLv3. So if you want to
be
sure, consider it GPLv3.
OK, then:
Since "Pd-extended as a whole is under the GPLv3", if I ever supply
a patch
against Pd-extended.git, I must assume that the GPLv3 applies to it
if I "want
to be sure".
It sounds as though if I want to avoid producing GPLv3 code, I need
to steer a
wide berth around Pd-extended.
Also, it sounds as though "if you want to be sure", no code which
was ever
derived from Pd-extended can ever be merged upstream into Vanilla
without
violating the GPL.
If I can't "be sure" that other Pd contributors won't claim that the
GPL
applies to contributions I'm making that are intended for the
Vanilla's BSD
core, that makes it a lot less attractive to contribute to this
project.
Marvin Humphrey
I think you are misunderstanding what Pd-extended is. It is a
collection of many subprojects (libraries, docs, etc.), each with
their own authors and licenses. As a collection, it is GPLv3, but
there are many subsections that are licensed BSD, MIT, Tcl, etc. A Pd
library that is licensed BSD and included in Pd-extended is still
available for use under the BSD. You could use it with Pd vanilla,
for example, and everything would be BSD.
Basically, if you avoid contributing to stuff that's included in Pd-
extended, that would mean you would avoid contributing to most of
what's used in the Pd world, since Pd-extended distributes it.
.hc
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