On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:51:23AM +0800, Simon Wise wrote:
On 26/10/11 01:29, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The Apple App Store is incompatible with the GPL and LGPL, from
what I
understand. Getting Apple to make their App Store compatible with
the GPL and
LGPL is another much better solution since it will work for all
GPL and LGPL
software.
this is of course the best solution ...
---->8 snip license advocacy and geopolitical theory 8<----
I would like to register my disagreement. In my opinion, the
solution which
best serves the broad community of users -- including those users
for whom
expr's licensing is problematic -- is for Pd Vanilla to have uniform
BSD
licensing. It seems to me that an implementation of expr which is
license-compatible with the rest of Vanilla is a perfectly
reasonable and
understandable feature request.
The practical rationale is obvious: if GPL (or potentially LGPL) is
not an
option for you, then expr is missing from your toolkit, and it would
be nice
to have it. I understand that there are several valuable
contributors within
the Pd community who believe that it is important to deny that
feature request
for moral reasons. There are also opposing moral reasons to grant
it, but as
before, I intend to keep my developer list posts on licensing
limited to
dry mechanics if possible; if you absolutely cannot live without a
sprinkle of
BSD license advocacy to complement the on-list deluge of copyleft
license
advocacy, please ask off-list.
We're talking about freedom here. If you want to write a BSD-licensed
expr clone, please do. I don't think you'll find any objections. The
objections have been to people asking others to change the licenses
they chose.
.hc
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