Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: proposed initial DTD for LADSPA-gui-xml .. licensing issues ...
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 04:26:15 EET
>Paul I support your view of opensource, but on the other hand if Linus
>had not given his permission to run commercial apps on the linux kernel,
>then I doubt that it would have gone that far.
>(Oracle gave back nothing so they do not deserve to run on Linux :-) )
To be precise, I never said that Steinberg don't deserve to run on
Linux. I said that I felt Steinberg doesn't deserve to be able to use
code that I wrote in their closed-source applications.
>So perhaps we should take Linus' attitude in the linux-audio field since this
>has proven to be viable over the longterm.
Linus attitude has been "they can do whatever they want, as long as
they are ready for kernel changes at any time". He has not offered up
any code for such companies to use in their applications. I'm fine
with that attitude, and I would welcome some commercial apps here. But
asking me/us to write code for them ? No thanks, I'll pass.
--p
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