[PD-dev] removing non-free code from pure-data SVN

[Xavier Miller]

Hello,

I am not a PD developer, but as (amateur) artist and (professional) 
software developer,
I am very sensitive about copyrights and licences.

I am a fervent Free Software defender, and I want to accept all licences
I have to respect for all software I use.

In my Linux distribution (Gentoo Linux), we have to explicitly list what
licences we accept, and set its name in a list, after reading it.

So, I discover I have installed pd-extended without knowing that
non-free or restrictive licences are used, which I would refuse (I don't
like licences as PiDip, especially if it is derived from a GPL project
but not respecting the GPL licence, for me it's like pirating software).

So, yes, please list ALL the licences which are included in
PD/PD-extended, especially those that are not compatible with common
Open Source / Free licences !
At least users need to know they use non-free parts of software, and use
it being aware of it.

(I use proprietary software too, and I know its terms).

Kind regards,
Xavier Miller.

Le 08/12/10 21:10, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
> So we now have two non-free libraries included in the pure-data SVN:
> pidip and unauthorized. As far as I understand it, this is in violation
> of what SourceForge asks of projects, and also seems to me in violation
> of the developers on the pure-data SourceForge, since the rest of the
> code there uses free licenses (mostly GPL, BSD-like, and Tcl-like).
>
> So the question is: should we remove pidip and unauthorized from the
> pure-data SVN?
>
> .hc
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