Re: [Zynaddsubfx-user] Licensing

[Lars L. <lar...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:08 +0200, Atte Andr=C3=A9 Jensen wrote:
> Lars Luthman wrote:
>=20
> > The copyright notices in the source code as well as on the webpage says
> > that ZynAddSubFX uses the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 only.
> > Would it be possible to change this to a multi-licence scheme such as
> > GNU GPL version 2 or later?
>=20
> I don't know much about GPL2 vs GPL3. Could you elaborate a bit over why
> this change of license would be such a good thing?

I don't know if it would be a good thing for you or anyone else, but it
would be good for people who want to license their stuff under GPL3 or
just multi-license under "GPL2 or any later version" (like me), since
they could then re-use parts of the Zyn code - that is not possible
today without releasing the whole resulting work under GPL2 and GPL2
only.


> > If the licensing was changed in that way (or
> > some other way that would be compatible with "GNU GPL version 3 or
> > later") I might be interested in making the code RT-safe.
>=20
> That's of course absolutely fantastic. Zyn is probably the most
> accessible, mature and generally useful synths we (linux user) have. I'd
> love zyn to become RT-safe!!!
>=20
> Did you talk directly to Paul about this? I'd expect him to be interested=
!

I have not, I was hoping he was reading this list now and then.


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