[PD] expr alternative
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 25 19:45:04 CEST 2011
----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Max <abonnements at revolwear.com>
> Cc: PD list <pd-list at iem.at>; Shahrokh Yadegari <sdy at ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] expr alternative
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Max wrote:
>
>> Am 25.10.2011 um 19:10 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>> On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>>> Le 2011-10-25 à 12:19:00, Max a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> So what is the situation now that expr could be LGPL instead of
> GPL? What does that mean for things like the Apple App Store?
>>>>
>>>> In the end I'm not sure anymore that LGPL would be fine, even
> though it does look like Apple ships with LGPL libs. (Though it's not
> impossible they might have rewritten them just to avoid the license...).
>>>>
>>>> There's too much contradiction between comments about it on the
> web, so, to sort out the subtleties, it would be best to ask the FSF about it.
>>>>
>>>> Well, you could ask Apple too. But I bet that the FSF will give
> more attention to your question.
>>>
>>>
>>> The problems are with software that ships from the Apple App Store, due
> to the way that is managed and the Terms of Service. It is the management and
> terms of service of the App Store that conflict with the GPL/LGPL. Apple ships
> lots of GPL and LGPL software as part of Mac OS X and iOS, but that does not
> touch the Apple App Store, so they can be in complete compliance.
>>>
>>> So Max, if you are interested in the Apple App Store, I think it is
> incompatible with all FSF licenses, and perhaps all copyleft licenses. The
> short term answer is to ship your iOS apps outside of the App Store, and the
> real fix is to get Apple to make their App Store compatible with copyleft
> licenses.
>>
>>
>> The question was asked by the author of expr - maybe I must re-phrase: Now
> that IRCAM is okay with changing their license of parts of expr from GPL to LGPL
> would that solve the issue of expr beeing used in the BSD vanilla in
> applications like for instance RJDJ in the Apple App store? (Or respectively any
> other use scenario where the choice of license imposes restrictions) If the
> answer is yes, then Shahrokh can go ahead and change the licence, fixed. If the
> answer is no, then a rewrite of expr to be fully BSD is probably the only
> solution to solve this.
If someone rewrites it with a 3-clause BSD license, I hope they also address some of
expr family's shortcomings. The ones I know are 1) string concatenation with dollarsign
variables doesn't work, and 2) all the expr objects have a Max-centric view of numbers
that clashes with Pd's "everything-is-a-float" philosophy. (If you don't understand
what I mean, matju has written about it on the list and I've also documented it in the
revised PDDP help patches for expr.)
>
>
> The Apple App Store is incompatible with the GPL and LGPL, from what I
> understand. Getting Apple to make their App Store compatible with the GPL and
> LGPL is another much better solution since it will work for all GPL and LGPL
> software.
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
>
> .hc
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