Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Roland and GPL
From: Jens M Andreasen (jens.andreasen_AT_chello.se)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 03:43:04 EEST
On tor, 2004-09-23 at 23:09, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Hello.
> >When this happened?? What a great move.
> >
> > http://www.roland.com/support/gpl/
>
> it looks good, but ...
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... It looks like they don't grok the GPL at all?
As if they think:
We used these tools to build our project
Therefore we must distribute these tools
?
The GPL states very clearly that you absolutely own the final outcome
(data) of using a GPL tool.
(Otherwise would be pure madness.)
So, what I read out of this, is that some lowly projectmanager at Roland
finally convinced his boss to convert 'Be' into some kind of unix
dialect, and allow people to work as if they were at home.
* Their applications still stays their property.
* The source for their applications stays their property.
* That mentioned source is only good when run on their hardware.
* That mentioned source (for the actual application) is not released.
* People "in the Loop" couldn't care less for that sourcecode. They
(we?) want to: Get a nice sound up *fast*, or as I heard the other day:
"... to sound 'expensive', before the customer goes elsewhere ... "
Uhmm .. Nothing to see here. Move along, get going ...
/jens
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