[PD] pd-extended license WAS: Keyboard shortcuts for "nudge", "done editing"

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2011-09-28 à 10:35:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
>> In the case of a GPL project including a BSD code, there is not a  
>> separate license.  Only the copyright holder can change the  
>> license. It is just that the BSD license allows you to add  
>> additional restrictions.  The GPL adds one restriction: whenever  
>> you give someone the software, you have to also give them the  
>> source code.
>
> GPL also adds the restriction of not adding any additional  
> restrictions, and that's a restriction by itself (I'm not saying  
> that it's good or bad).
>
> It can also be counted as several additional restrictions, depending  
> on the way one reads it.
>
>> So if you were going to include Pd-extended in your OS as a whole,  
>> you have to treat all the code as GPLv3.  list-abs is a library  
>> included in Pd-extended.  It is released under a BSD license.  If  
>> you download list-abs by itself and package that, then it is not Pd- 
>> extended.  So its BSD.
>
> If someone includes Pd-extended as a whole in their OS, and modify  
> BSD externals, while keeping them bundled with the rest of Pd- 
> extended, they don't have to distribute the source to those  
> modifications, despite your claim that Pd-extended has a license «  
> as a whole ». That person doesn't have to take anything apart  
> (debundle) or whatever.
>
> The « as a whole » concept has a more limited applicability than  
> what you seem to be claiming.


There are many examples of software that includes code that has many  
different licenese.  ffmpeg/libav is an example.  It not only gives  
you ./configure flags to support different licenses, but also includes  
non-free code, that when linked together into a binary is not legal to  
distribute.

Perhaps in theory this is bad.  Then there is theory and there is  
practice.  I'll bet there are many people who are glad to be able to  
compile this non-free ffmpeg, because once they have the binary it  
will be able to do things that the free ffmpeg cannot.

.hc


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