[PD] porting a Pd patch to Max license issues

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:48 AM
>Subject: [PD] porting a Pd patch to Max license issues
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>hey folks,
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>I'm not going to port anything to Max, but someone expressed interest in porting the Xth Sense in Max.
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>Now, apart from my personal view about this, which is a diplomatic "I'd rather not, thanks. Port the patch you need to Pd instead".
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>what are the license issues here?
>The XS framework in Pd will be GPL.
>Can a Max software be GPL? What about copyleft then?

Contact the FSF:
www.fsf.org/
They will be able to give you the most definitive answer (though you might need to explain to them 

concepts like "abstraction" and what Pd and Max are).

-Jonathan


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>I found this but it's not clear. and I thought there could not be GPL software written in Max because the interpreter is closed-source.
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>http://www.cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=1139
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>and this is nothing new but good and clear resource:
>http://www.blogherald.com/2009/07/07/the-basics-of-the-gpl/
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>thoughts, previous cases?
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>thanks,
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>-- 
>Marco Donnarumma
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