Trying not to drift this to the usual 'anti-Apple' thing and no direct
critique to the OP, But:
I think it's in a way good that people realise some of the close-minded
(at the most) views and policies of Apple. And their consequences.
Especially in the 'creative/artistic' landscape which the company
targets so much.
Are yo u frustrated because a cool GPL software (like Pd) can't run on
you latest iToy? I say: good! Are you frustrated because Apple withdrew
a programme from the AppStore because they judged it 'inadequate'? I
say: good. You are probably starting to open your eyes.
Go pester Apple as much as you can *before* coming to the developer and
'ask' him/her (as politely, kindly, tenderly as you like) to change
their license which is often not only some piece of shallow legality
thing but (especially in the case of FLOSS) a personal, ideal often
hard, decision.
That said, it is obviously developers' sacred right to decide what the
hell they like with their (often hard-worked) code.
All IMHO.
Lorenzo.
On 24/10/2011 18:45, Max wrote:
Am 23.10.2011 um 19:27 schrieb i go bananas:
or has anyone ever tried contacting the original authors and asking them to
change the license so it can fit in with pd's standard BSD ??
I've had the pleasure to meet Shahrokh Yadegari a few weeks back here in Weimar
and asked him about just that. He said he always wanted to change the license
to BSD.
IIRC it is based on some older code which has a licence attached he can't
change, so he would like to rewrite those parts but simply didn't find the time
to do that yet.
On the website ( http://crca.ucsd.edu/~yadegari/expr.html ) is written:
“Based on original sources from IRCAM's jMax
Released under GNU's General Public License.”
According to Shahrokh that would take him under a week to do but it was a
matter of time/priority that it had not happened as of today.
So maybe asking him nicely could to the trick. Or send a voucher for week in a
californian retreat...
Max
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