Re: [Lmms-users] [LMMS-devel] Fwd: LMMS customization project

[Paul G. <dr...@gm...>]

Yes. But Having a seperate brand will cause LMMS's userbase to split
between "LMMS Users" and "BMP Users" or whatever..  My big fear is
that users who start with BeatMachinePro or whatever will never learn
about LSP. Even worse, if Aaron doesn't merge in all of our changes in
future versions, then these users will never experience our cool new
features.

I am still sticking to my proposition: instead of forking LMMS, why
don't we just make it easier for themes to override some of the text?
This way the users WILL be using LMMS, instead, there will just be a
beatmachinepro theme which is defaulted to.  This way the user  can
upgrade to a newer LMMS, the beatmachinepro theme will remain in tact
etc..  Hell, we ship the additional theme with our official build.
Aaron will just modify the installer to default to the
"beatmachinepro" theme.

Again, I know that copyright is interesting. However, I thought that a
copyright can still exist on the Brand.  Look at firefox for example.

-Paul

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:18 PM, A. Tres Finocchiaro
<tre...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Paul Giblock <dr...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Toby -
>>
>> Do you have a Copyright on LMMS?   Everyone who is wanting to make
>> simple cosmetic changes an claim a new product are committing
>> copyright infringement I believe.
>
> Paul, if you read the General Public License, it makes a point to mention
> the legalities of selling the software.  Companies like Novell and RedHat
> currently use this to sell a GPL product by charging for their versions of
> Linux.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
>
> It is perfectly legal for Aaron to repackage and sell LMMS so as long as
> code changes are republished (which would be in his best interest anyways).
> His artwork can be separately licensed under what he chooses (unless he
> borrows that too, then he'll be responsible for abiding to that license
> too).
>
> What is more viral to a community is a license that does not have strict
> requirements of code "kick-backs" (Like BSD, MIT, Apache).
>
> Apple chose FreeBSD for they're OS X operating system.  The BSD license
> allows them to close the source and contribute what they want to the FreeBSD
> project.  The GPL license does not allow this.
>
> -Tres
>
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