[PD] a little ot: creative commons

Tim Blechmann TimBlechmann at gmx.net
Wed Jun 21 12:43:14 CEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:01 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
> > what if, when you share a patch and give a dummy-[expr] with it and
> you
> > tell explicitly not to use the 'original' [expr], that comes with
> > millers pd, and people do substitute it by themselves?
> 
> if your patch is released under a GPL-incompatible license, then the 
> users who substitute your [expr] with the GPL'ed one, might be
> violating 
> the GPL (probably only, if they distribute your patch "linked" with
> GPL 
> [expr]);
> your patch should not be affected by whatever license shahrokh's
> [expr] 
> is released under. 

well, my interpretation of:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
is the following:

if expr would be part of the pd language, patches wouldn't have to be
gpl-compatible licensed ...
the question is, _is_ expr part of the pd language? as there is no
language specification it is not clear ...

otoh, it's also possible to run gpl'ed programs with a proprietary
interpreter like max/msp
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCInterpreterIncompat)

cheers ... tim

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making
something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that
they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative
observation.' Creative viewing.
  William S. Burroughs
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