<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:02, Marvin Humphrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marvin@rectangular.com">marvin@rectangular.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:29:45PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
> Wow, that's interesting. I don't often hear that, people using Tcl in<br>
> their work.<br>
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</div>I write open source code for a living -- Eventful sponsors my work on the<br>
Apache Lucy search engine library, and that's where about 75% of my hours go.<br>
A volunteer showed up a little while ago who wants to add Tcl bindings for<br>
Lucy. I'm teaching myself Tcl so that I can work with this volunteer more<br>
effectively.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Sure you can, its a .tcl script, meaning you are giving the user the<br>
> source whenever you are giving the user the program. So its even kind<br>
> of BSD-ish because you can't give the user a GUI plugin without giving<br>
> them the source, so you don't need to do anything else to distribute the<br>
> source. Pd patches are the same idea.<br>
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</div>I am sincerely grateful for the pointer to this plugin and for your generosity<br>
with your time and support, but I assume that a miscommunication has occurred<br>
and I am not understanding your suggestion properly. I cannot take code from<br>
this plugin, make changes to adapt it for Vanilla, remove the GPL tag and<br>
replace it with an implicit BSD license by submitting it to the patch tracker.<br>
That would not adhere to the original author's license, and it would be a<br>
violation of copyright.<br>
<br>
If I wish to supply the proposed functionality for Vanilla my options are<br>
either to create a new patch from scratch which cannot be considered a<br>
"derivative work" of that plugin, or to track down all the original authors of<br>
that plugin, persuade them to issue their code under an additional BSD3<br>
license, and then once that process is complete, create a derivative work and<br>
submit it.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
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Marvin Humphrey<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Hello Marvin and Welcome!<br><br>I think you just went too theoretical... we're talking about (as far as I can understand) 2-10 lines of code which you wouldn't even copy-paste but study and learn and then use what you learned. That's not a derivative work, that's "looking at" the source, which is free as HC pointed it out.<br clear="all">
<br>Andras<br>