[PD-dev] patch tracker licenses (was Re: Unit tests)

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

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On 09/29/2011 10:43 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Pd Vanilla is 3-clause BSD, and according to IOhannes so is the stuff on the patch 
> tracker.

just for clarification: i did not intend to say that.
instead i wanted to say that "stuff" in the patch tracker is (assumed to
have) the same license as the code it is applied to, unless explicitely
stated.

mfgasdr
IOhannes

PS: some more examples (though it's probably clear anyhow)

if you create a patch for Pd-vanilla and you don't mention a special
license anywhere, you are implicitly licensing your stuff under BSD-3
(Pd-vanilla's license)
if you create a patch for zexy, you are implicitely licensing your stuff
under GPL-2+.

if you create a patch for Pd-extended, things are a bit more
complicated, and i would assume that the implicit license applies to the
part you are actually patching. there is hardly any code  that is
Pd-extended specific, as PdX is mainly a collection of loads of
packages. adding to the confusion is, that there are patches (form the
patch-tracker) that are in Pd-extended but not "upstream" (Pd-vanilla or
some externals)
e.g. my "initbang" patch is included (afaik) in PdX but not vanilla, but
it is really a patch for vanilla and thus implicitely licensed under
BSD-3 rather than GPL-3+.
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