Ttoine, The situation is not the same as MySQL or QT. I've contacted the linuxsampler main developer and he's closing it this way because other programs use linuxsampler not as a library but through sockets.
Anyway, I will try to share some ideas of how to fix this with him. Luis de Bethencourt On Nov 29, 2007 9:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Cory. > > However, think that you can compare this discussion with the licence of > Mysql, wich is GPL if the application is non commercial or GPL, and they > have a possibility to make a commercial licence for closed source > software using their librairies. It is quite the same problematic, and > ofr what I know, mysql is in Ubuntu (for lamp servers) > > So waiting for a statement of linuxsampler team is a good thing, but > imho we can package and distribute linuxsampler in Ubuntu. > > Toine > > > > Yvan Vander Sanden a écrit : > > > Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > > >> If you say it is so close to gpl... Why don't they license it gpl or > >> any other known license with a foundation behind? > >> > >> When a linuxsampler developer gives me a valid purpose I will start > >> agreeing with them. Or they license it gpl or any other free license > >> for that matter, we will ship it by default. > >> > >> For now, they have their own license, which is never cool. And that > >> license has ambiguos terms as you mention, that can be taken to be > >> very free or dictatorship. As a contributor to a distro that deploys > >> software to a _LOT_ of people. I can't take the risk of > >> misinterpreting a license, and breaking it, or even worse, making the > >> users break it. > >> > >> Not talking about you, Yvan, but most end users don't care about > >> licenses. So we have to care for us and for them. Sadly enough, free > >> software development isn't excempt of a lot of legal issues (which are > >> boring and tedious). > >> > >> > > I agree. It is a sound reason to refuse software if it's not GPL. I was > > only worried because I thought there was a misinterpretation, and a > > judgment made for the wrong reasons could polarize people. As a final > > point I'd like to mention i don't use samplers myself. So it doesn't > > have anything to do with my personal preferences. > > > > Regards, > > > > yvan > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > -- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá luisbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: B0ED1326 -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
