[PD-dev] flext license

Thomas Grill t.grill at gmx.net
Tue Jan 21 11:41:30 CET 2003


Hi Frank,
you have strong arguments to stick to the GPL and one point's for sure:

- GPL must be a possible license choice for all current and future externals
basing on flext

However, flext is more general and in the Max/MSP world open-source is not
as widespread as in the PD universe. As a musician i'm often depending on
stable, feature-rich performance tools and if they do the job i'm willing to
pay for them. It's easy to develop large, complex packages with flext (see
vasp) and i want to encourage that, be open-source or not.

So the target license should strongly encourage the open-source idea (and be
compatible with the GPL), but allow commercial applications as well. That
should be fairly easy.


best greetings,
Thomas





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