[PD] pd-extended licensing policy
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Tue Apr 15 21:03:15 CEST 2008
GPL is the only license that can be used for Pd-extended since the
code in it is a mix of GPL and BSD-style.
GPL doesn't require you to publish any code. It requires to you to
give the code to anyone who you give binaries too. If you don't give
binaries to anyone, you don't have to give them code.
.hc
On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:21 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> hi,
> another thing that I ran into, and that I don't really like (but
> maybe I
> am to evil, or I have a wrong understanding of the gpl...) is the fact
> that pd-extended has a more restrictive licence policy than pd itself,
> which is probably due to the licence policy of some of the externals.
> it is the question of how to develop patches for corporate clients,
> who
> do not want to publish their application code. I am not sure if
> this is
> ok (to keep your patches disclosed) and I think I could not use
> pd-extended for such situations.
> marius.
>
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