[PD-dev] Unit tests

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Marvin Humphrey <marvin at rectangular.com>
> Cc: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>; "pd-dev at iem.at" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Unit tests
> 
> 
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> 
>>  On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:04:12AM -0400, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>>  Argh, please hold on a second. I have just realised that I do not have 
> the
>>>  authority to do this. I should have asked two other people who 
> contributed
>>>  unit tests. Sorry about that, I will get back to you.
>> 
>>  You caught it before the release, which is the important thing!  And before 
> a
>>  commit, and before I even had the chance to look through it.  So no harm 
> done
>>  and thanks for staying on top of things!
>> 
>>  It also sounds as if the other people may have contributed tests, but not
>>  touched the framework -- in which case, perhaps their IP could be omitted 
> from
>>  the contribution if it turns out that either or both are not amenable to
>>  granting an additional license.
>> 
>>  Marvin Humphrey
> 
> 
> Can I ask, why are pushing the BSD license?  I am curious because it seems you 
> are more interested in convincing people to use the BSD license than anything 
> else in Pd so far.

I don't think it matters at all and would like to refrain from getting into a list argument 
about the pluses and minuses of all the licenses used by Pd and its externals.  Pd 
Vanilla is 3-clause BSD, and according to IOhannes so is the stuff on the patch 
tracker.  That gives plenty of room for someone like Marvin to develop solely using 
the 3-clause BSD license.

I would only say that the valid constraint of using only one free license shouldn't add a 
constant burden to other developers who are fine with the many free licenses that exist 
in Pd and its external libraries.

-Jonathan

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