[PD] Legal restrictions for apps

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Tony -

I'm not sure, but I always thought you can distribute LGPL objects within
commercial (closed-source) software.  If I'm wrong about that, the next
step would be to re-rwite the patch without using expr~ and not include
expr~ in the product.  (I keep it as an extern to make that easy to do.)

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:32:21AM -0600, Tony Hillerson wrote:
> Hey guys, 
> 
> I'm wondering about the restrictions for using Pure Data patches in Android and iOS apps with libpd. I have a rudimentary understanding that if I distribute software that's released under the GPL or LGPL I need to make available my source or at least the object files of my app.
> 
> As I understand it, from the vanilla distribution contains [expr~], which is LGPL. If I use libpd, I'm distributing it, and I need to make the source or the object files of my apps available. Is that correct? Are there any paid apps that use pd and distribute through Google Play or Appstore? 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Hillerson
> 

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