Re: [Audacity-nyquist] Licensing of the Audacity nyquist plugins?

[paul b. <sni...@fa...>]

My feeling is that no one should be allowed to foul up the software; and
then, turn around and sell it for cash. I think that is basic idea
behind a Public License.

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:28:35 -0700 (PDT), "David R. Sky"
<dav...@sh...> said:
> Hi Edgar,
> 
> Audacity itself is now under GNU General Public License version 2, as is 
> my code being included in the upcoming 1.3.4 beta release of audacity.
> Not 
> sure how or whether this helps. And the developers had discussed whether 
> to upgrade to version 3 of the license.
> 
> Anyways, hope we get some clarification from one of the developers.
> 
> David
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, edg...@we... wrote:
> 
> > Nyquist license considerations
> >
> > I must confess that in my plugins I often write 'GPL' for the sake
> > of simplicity (or you may call it 'thoughtlessness') because I want
> > to express that they can be used, copied and given away for free.
> >
> > I personally have no problems if my plugins are included with
> > commercial software because I know that customer service and software
> > maintainance usually cannot be provided entirely for free, at least
> > not in the long view.
> >
> > On the other hand I in deed have problems if the only 'comercialism'
> > consists in making money with selling my plugins (but what in practice
> > is usually not the case).
> >
> > Unfortunately the GPL license demands that GPL software (GPL Nyquist
> > plugins) can only be used together with open source software, what in
> > this case is a problem (as far as I have understood).
> >
> > As the original Nyquist/XLISP license is quite long (but not as long
> > as the GPL) it would be quite tedious to reproduce the entire text
> > within each and every plugin and providing the license text as an extra
> > file with every plugin is also no real practical solution.
> >
> > So I would like to return the question to the developers of Nyquist
> > and LibNyquist to suggest an 'official solution' because I know
> > that there already had been similar misunderstandings in the past.
> >
> > A suggestion from my own:
> >
> > If a 'official' copy of the Nyquist/XLISP License could be provided
> > on the Nyquist homepage we could write:
> >
> > This plugin is released under the Nyquist/XLISP license that can be
> > found under http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/...
> >
> > I think the majority of the plugins is 'released under the GPL' because
> > nobody really knows how to deal with the license question.
> >
> > And also probably nearly nobody has ever realized that strictly spoken
> > a GPL plugin could not even distributed together with Nyquist itself.
> >
> > I would be happy for any solution.
> >
> > - edgar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> David R. Sky
> http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/
> 
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