Hi Reinhard,
GPL is fine for me - I never intended to ask for any money for musixps.
I would only like to see my name in the musixps.tex file...
Hope this helps,
Stanislav Kneifl.
Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>Hi Stanislav,
>
>I'd like to do an rpm package of pmx. As I tried to
>create the examples I noticed a missing musixps input
>file. I found it on the icking archive and downloaded
>it. No problem using it, but I'd like to make either
>a own rpm package of it or distribute it with pmx if
>possible.
>
>According to the readme the license is not compatible
>with (L)GPL and/or BSD, so I cannot upload it anywhere
>(except the icking archive) for redistribution.
>
>My favoured distribution has an archive of contributed
>binaries which is available to anyone for download
>(including the sources). The most picked or wished
>packages from there are distributed (sold) on an
>extra CD. For that reason the distribution requires
>the license of each package to be GPL or BSD-compatible.
>(they also sometimes add patches to the packages to
>fix problems and try to submit the patches back to the
>author).
>
>With the current license of musixps I cannot include
>two of the four ready to be viewed examples of pmx,
>without patching them to not use musixps.
>
>If I make a package of musixps I'll integrate the
>two zip files and the readme into a new archive
>called musixps-%{version}.tar.bz2. This archive
>will be part of the src.rpm package which I'd like
>to redistribute from the above mentioned contrib
>archive (and of course the icking music archive).
>
>I hope you understand my problem with the license.
>You can find informations about the GPL and other
>licenses on
>http://www.freeworldlicence.org/other_licences.shtml
>
>Also it would be good to use include a seperate
>license file in the musixps package.
>
>With best regards,
>
>Reinhard Katzmann
>
>
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