[PD] Re: [PD-announce] A new version of FFTease is now available for Pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Eric Lyon wrote:

>>
>> Not granting rights to the general public (e.g. such as only  
>> mentioning
>> artistic and research and nothing else) amounts to putting a lot of
>> restriction.
>>
>
> In any case the Pd version is now under the MIT license which
> hopefully will allow people to feel comfortable doing whatever they
> like with FFTease.

Yup, that's perfect.  Thanks!

In effect, it sounds like you were releasing it under a MIT-style  
license all along.  Its just that the law is so huge, and lawyers are  
so expensive, so if you use a well established license, the  
ramifications are well documented and already worked out.  If you use  
your own license, then only a court can tell us definitively what the  
general public's rights are.

.hc
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