[PD] Keyboard shortcuts for "nudge", "done editing"

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Sep 28 17:31:57 CEST 2011


On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2011-09-28 à 11:00:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
>> As the maintainer and main author of the pd-extended.git, I will  
>> you give you my assurance that the code under pd-extended.git is  
>> under a BSD license. That repo is a fork of the pure-data.git repo  
>> of Miller, it is largely intended as way to develop and feed  
>> patches to the upstream pure-data.git, and as Matju pointed out,  
>> the only license statement in pd-extended.git is Miller's BSD one  
>> from pure-data git.
>>
>> That said, building the actual Pd-extended package uses stuff that  
>> is outside that repo which is definitely GPL.  That's the stuff in  
>> the pure-data SVN.
>
> Even though from the standpoint of using Pd as one indiscriminate  
> whole, you can think of it as GPL because that's the «strongest»  
> license being used, the BSD portions are so large in size that it's  
> misleading to say that GPL is the license of Pd. That's because it's  
> very possible to pick the parts of Pd you want to use so that you  
> only use BSD code, and because the core of the software is under BSD  
> license.


Yes, it would be misleading to say Pd is under the GPL.  I haven't  
heard anyone say that.  Pd-extended is under the GPL tho.

.hc




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