[PD] PiDiP's legal status
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Wed Jan 18 04:53:18 CET 2006
Because of the requirements of the GNU GPL 2 license of PDP and
effectv, the PiDiP code is required to be released under the GNU GPL 2
license.
PiDiP is distributed in Pd-extended, which has a GNU GPL 2 license.
FYI: you can use some parts of Pd-extended from the CVS with a SIBSD
license, but the whole package is released under the GNU GPL since it
includes GNU GPL'd code.
.hc
On Jan 17, 2006, at 8:00 PM, juto aviten wrote:
> Hi,
> the personn concern by this didn't really give his opinion, or maybe
> I am wrong he already done in a previous thread that talked about this
> problem.
> we all agree that all versions realized since now are under GPL's
> licence terms and that won't change! But I didn't understand what will
> happen for next, it seems some people here are more informed than
> others?
> Is this double licence will affect the copy of the software, to
> change the code, redistribute it... will be people have to use the
> both same licence GPL and SIBSD(?), why did you talked, Mathieu, in
> the term "non-free software, and at worst, it's illegal to distribute
> it"? We need to know if this is serious or non-sense? Because it could
> change the way we work with this piece of software... I think that's a
> subject that concern every users here to know what's happen with PD
> and librairies, because PIDIP is a group of externals, it's not PD
> itself... it's like the story with Olaf and his ogg objects, his
> position was clear... what about this time? Why Yves choose 2 licence,
> why GPL is not anymore suited to his work?
>
>
> cheers
>
> juto
>
>> Please note that PiDiP is legally muddy. At best, it's non-free
>> software,
>> and at worst, it's illegal to distribute it.
>>
>> This is because it has two licences and no mention that the user can
>> pick
>> either, so by default all licenses must apply at once, and because
>> those
>> two licenses are conflicting. It's licensed under both the GPL and a
>> modified SIBSD license. Normally, GPL and SIBSD are compatible, but
>> the
>> extra PiDiP-specific clause is conflicting with the GPL.
>>
>> The PiDiP-specific clause is also conflicting with the FSD (Free
>> Software
>> Definition) and the OSD (Open-Source Definition): this is what is
>> prompting Hans to remove PiDiP from the pd-extended installers.
>>
>> For more information you may read the pd-dev archives starting
>> December
>> 30th, 2005.
>>
>
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