[PD] gigaverb~

[Marco Matteo Markidis]

Thank you Iohannes. I read more carefully the GPL page.

Cheers,
Marco Matteo Markidis

2015-12-14 13:14 GMT+01:00 IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>:

> On 2015-12-14 12:30, Marco Matteo Markidis wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> >
> > In this period I need a reverb with the time control in Pd. Googling, I
> > found a Max port made by Olaf Matthes of Juhana Sadeharju's gigaverb.
> > So I did a Pd port of gigaverb~ and now it works.
> > The source code I found contains the typical GPL disclaimer but at the
> top
> > there is "Copyright (C) 1999 Juhana Sadeharju". So I don't know if there
> is
> > some legal problem in order to distribute this external. Someone can help
> > me?
>
> why would there be?
>
> the GPL is a *license*, not a *copyright* (despite it's alias "copyleft").
>
> so any properly licensed (non Public Domain) software contains two things:
> - a copyright stanza (who owns the copyright)
> - a license grant (under which terms you can use the software)
>
> this is even made explicit in the GPL howto [1]:
> > Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two
> > elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice
> > (such as “Copyright 1999 Terry Jones”), and a statement of copying
> > permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of
> > the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).
>
> fgmdsr
> IOhannes
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>
>
> ghsdfm
> IOhannes
>
>
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