Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] SuperClonider
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 22:50:04 EEST
> --- james mccartney writes
>
> But things have a way of changing in life, so you might sit tight and
> see what happens.
Taking the long view, its more interesting to submit the SuperCollider
language to be an open standard, and to permit royalty-free licensing
for any patents you may have related to the language, than it is to
GPL your own implementation. You can do this acting independently,
like Adobe with PDF or Pixar with the Renderman language, or you can
hook up with an independent standards body of some sort (in both
Adobe and Pixar cases, though, I don't know what actions they took
in terms of patents).
Without taking this step, you're condemning the SC language to a
lifetime limited to the practical lifetime of your implementation(s).
Whereas, Grace Hopper is dead, but COBOL lives on :-).
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