[PD] new license for pidip and unauthorized WAS: pd-pidip into Debian

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Pagano, Patrick wrote:

> So what does this really mean? We have to go back to building pidip from 
> source if we want to use it? has it changed that much from when it was 
> released? I am just starting to get students interested in learning 
> these objects and would like to continue

Actually, you don't have the right to use PiDiP, and no-one has the right 
to. It's illegal, and it's been like that for at least five years.

> Why is there this animosity?

Because there is a genuine legal problem, and it's been there for at least 
five years, but for some people, it has somehow become more obvious now, 
because the Degoyon clause just expanded a lot, though it was already 
just as illegal in 2005.

  _______________________________________________________________________
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC