Ok. I'll make a patch for it if no one else does ... maybe in a few days.

On Oct 5, 2013, at 1:41 PM, i go bananas <[email protected]> wrote:

> just to clarify,
> 
> Shahrokh Yadegari, IRCAM, and the JMax developers, ALL agreed with the switch 
> to LGPL license. 
> 
> so AFAIK, the 'GPL' claim in the source code is still there simply because 
> no-one has changed it. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, it seems like all the authors agree and there's already an LGPL 
> license. I only brought up all of this due to the inconsistency between whats 
> actually there in the source files. I'd love for that to just be changed and 
> we all move on. It's not like this is a huge patent / money maker thing. If 
> being anal and bringing this to light truly means I *can't* use it in the 
> long run, well than I should have done what most everyone else does in these 
> situations: use it and keep my mouth shut :P.
> 
> We know what is allowed / not allowed by Apple, don't need a lawyer for that.
> 
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> On 10/04/2013 01:44 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>> One (not so minor) note on this... "expr" is copyright IRCAM (hahrokh 
>>> Yadegari
>>> was working for IRCAM at the time) and is also included in Max, so it
>>> might be sbject to agreements between IRCAM and Cycling '74.
>>> 
>>> I was under the impression it was under GPL, not LGPL.  I just looked and
>>> saw that, indeed, the LICENSE.txt file says LGPL and the expr source code
>>> print out "GPL" on startup.  The reason I think it's actually GPL is that
>>> that is how IRCAM released it -- as part of jMAX, years ago.  The current
>>> code is based on that original code.  Although it was extensively reworked
>>> by Shahrokh, I presume the GPL terms under which he was working required him
>>> to release the result under GPL too.
>>> 
>>> So for the moment at least, I'm afraid FUD rules.
>> 
>> 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
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