I agree that it seems like there's there's no prohibition on distributing LPGL objects, but it seems like unless I fork libpd and remove that extern I'm required to make my object code available as well. Is that other's understanding also?
-- Tony Hillerson On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 13:04 PM, Miller Puckette wrote: > Hi Tony - > > I'm not sure, but I always thought you can distribute LGPL objects within > commercial (closed-source) software. If I'm wrong about that, the next > step would be to re-rwite the patch without using expr~ and not include > expr~ in the product. (I keep it as an extern to make that easy to do.) > > cheers > Miller > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:32:21AM -0600, Tony Hillerson wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm wondering about the restrictions for using Pure Data patches in Android > > and iOS apps with libpd. I have a rudimentary understanding that if I > > distribute software that's released under the GPL or LGPL I need to make > > available my source or at least the object files of my app. > > > > As I understand it, from the vanilla distribution contains [expr~], which > > is LGPL. If I use libpd, I'm distributing it, and I need to make the source > > or the object files of my apps available. Is that correct? Are there any > > paid apps that use pd and distribute through Google Play or Appstore? > > > > -- > > Tony Hillerson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > >
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