[PD-dev] seeking advice on Pd gui overhaul

[Arnout Engelen]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:54:40PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > unless the new GUI would be decoupled from Pd (which is a bit of a muddy 
> > discussion), using a GPL GUI library would only be allowed
> 
> well, if the new gui follows the path of the old gui, then pd-gui and
> pd-core are two entirely different applications, communicating over a
> network socket.
> i don't think the GPL can do anything here (e.g. make all internet
> explorers grabbing pages from an apache2 server violate the GPL)

Well, if the protocol used for the communication is very application-specific
this might not be entirely clear-cut. Afaik there's room for discussion, and
license discussions are never much fun, so I actually wanted to avoid that..
perhaps I should've just kept my mouth shut :). Sorry :).


Arnout