[PD] Licensing issues (was rjdj is gone, robotcowboy is coming ...)

[Ed Kelly]

Oooh, I didn't know that!
I played it safe I thought.
 
> On 2012-11-04 14:40, Ed Kelly wrote:

>>  My 2pence worth: Miller's original Pd was licensed to MAX and
>>  became MSP (oh, the irony) and this could only happen because Pd is
>>  BSD (not GPL) licensed distribution.
> 
> where is the irony?
> cycling74 did *not* steal any code.
> 
Perhaps...that it is ironic that after not being able to use the Max code, the thing he develops becomes part of Max. Perhaps ironic is the wrong word!

>>  1) re-license my own library of externals ekext to BSD license. 2)

>>  code new externals [...]. This code was released BSD.
> 
> btw, you don't need to do this, in order to be able to circumvent the
> GPL-clauses of iOS.
> if you are the copyright holder of the code, you can simply release
> your code under a dual license, e.g. under GPL and under some
> proprietary "all rights reserved" EULA thing.
> iOS would only ever see the "all rights reserved" part.
> 
> this will only work if you are the only copyright holder of the code
> or have the agreement of all other copyright holders  to change the
> license.
> the same however is true, if you change the license from GPL to BSD3.
> i'm sure you did check with all those people that contributed to ekext
> in the past....
> 
> the drawback here is that *other* people cannot use your code for
> building their own iOS applications. you could however re-license the
> code to those people explicitely (so the awareness on apple's license
> politics raises)
> 
> the pro of dual-licensing is, that the code will still be available
> under GPL and enforce GPL in the majority of cases (that is: non-iOS)
> 
Thank you for your enlightenment on this.


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