On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 15:51 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 20:33 +0100, Bob Ham wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 23:53 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > > Dave Robillard wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 17:43 +0200, Luis Garrido wrote:
> > > >>> LinuxSampler is not free software or open source software.
> > > >>>
> > > >> (sigh, must we, really?)
> > > >>
> > > >> It depends on who you choose to side with.
> > >
> > > It's just using a modified GPL License which isn't clearly labelled as
> > > such.
> >
> > According to this URL
> >
> > http://cvs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxsampler/src/Sampler.cpp?rev=1.28&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> >
> > I have permission to use that particular file under the GPL, or (at my
> > option) any later version. Looking through a few other files and I see
> > I have the same permissions for those. Seems to be open source *and*
> > free software *and* released under the GPL *and* free-as-in-beer.
> >
> > *shrug*
>
> Definitely, at the end of the day there is no way in hell their
> "exception" would hold up in court, since they basically just mention it
> in passing on the web page.
Nope, it is (or at least was the last time I checked) mentioned in the,
I think, README file in the tarballs, up to and including 0.3.3.
-- Fernando
Received on Mon Jul 3 00:15:01 2006
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