[PD] Legal restrictions for apps

Ivica Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Sun Oct 6 06:26:12 CEST 2013


Please pardon my ignorance, but would it be possible to publish an app
through XYZ store and in case XYZ store does not have ability to also
include source that the project author host such source on its own page and
have the link to it embedded inside the app?
On Oct 6, 2013 12:09 AM, "Rich E" <reakinator at gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK, [expr]/[expr~] are not built into any libpd produced binaries, nor
> any other GPL/LGPL components.  The user has to opt into those by adding
> them to their project.
>
> So you should be good.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If your using libpd, you can simple remove the pure-data/extra/expr~
>> folder and com[ile it without expr.
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Tony Hillerson <tony.hillerson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, great. That's helpful everyone, thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Tony Hillerson
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 18:35 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>>
>> My approach with PdParty so far is:
>>
>> - GPL source code is incompatible with the Apple App Store due to the
>> static linking requirement which means you cannot distribute GPL libs as
>> dynamic libs which can be updated or replaced by the user
>>
>> - GPL patches are fine, they are text files which are not compiled into
>> your app binary so can be freely replaced, I expose all of the GPL patches
>> I use to the user so they can modify or update them to satisfy the
>> distribution requirement of the GPL
>>
>> - I leave out [expr] & [expr~] for now. The license in the expr src
>> folder is LGPL, but the license in the source headers is GPL and the
>> following is printed to console when first loading the external: "expr,
>> expr~, fexpr~ version 0.4 under GNU General Public License ". I will leave
>> it out until those parts of the code are explicitly changed. If this has
>> already happened, then we need to merge in those changes to libpd. So far,
>> as Miller suggests, I've been replacing [expr] with regular math objects.
>>
>>
>>  --------
>> Dan Wilcox
>> @danomatika
>> danomatika.com
>> robotcowboy.com
>>
>>
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