I would be all for this, often what I do is patch old code I have found over the years in Pure Data and MANY time expr~ is used for something essential so it seems That's not to say ALL of them but a lot of them do.
I think a converter would be ideal if it could exist inside of vanilla! pp -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller Puckette Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 3:50 PM To: Jonathan Wilkes Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PD] Legal restrictions for apps > > My vote would be to keep all the original GPL licenses in Pd vanilla's > expr, and to remove the LGPL readme. GPL was the licensed under which > expr was originally released, so we can reasonably assume all the > copyright holders agreed to that license. > > If the consensus was that it should be changed in order to accomodate > Pure Data builds on IOS, then everyone who wants to use expr on IOS > should pool their resources and hire a lawyer to explain what is and > isn't allowed under the LGPL and Apple's TOS. The lawyer should also > find out if it was indeed possible to change the license to LGPL in > light of what Miller brings up about the original licensing. > > That's two unknowns wrt LGPL expr, and they won't be solved by > revising the source nor IANAL discussions. > > Best, > Jonathan > Cheaper and simpler than talking to lawyers would be simply to write a new compatible one. On the way it could export an API so that other objects could evaluate expressions (you could embed them in messages, make a Max-like 'if', maybe have a thing that creates objects with expr-calculated creation arguments, etc). cheers M _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
