Am Fre, 2003-07-18 um 19.19 schrieb Frank Barknecht: > Hallo, > Daniel James hat gesagt: // Daniel James wrote: > > > Actually, I saw that statement on the ZynAddSubFX site and assumed it > > was an extra clause in addition to the GPL. As Paul owns the > > copyright (which I assume he does) he's entitled to add any extra > > licence restrictions he likes to his own software, as a 'GPL plus'. > > No, he cannot write a GPL plus this way. The GPL (2) says: > > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of > running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the > Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on > the Program (independent of having been made by running the > Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does. > > So the act of using the software isn't an issue covered by the GPL. > > > That might mean it's not strictly 'software libre' of course, but Paul > > does say 'please' rather than 'you may not use' though. > > Yes, that's an important observation. As a lot of (christian) > theologists for hundreds of years and even today have very different > meanings about "what is against god" this statement can never be > considered anything else but an opinion and a wish (or a joke, but > that doesn't belong here). > > BTW: I think that demo1.ogg of ZynAdd sounds very New-Age-ish in my > ears. ;) > Indeed- i tried Zynadd today and it sounded quite spooky for my taste BTW: ZynaDD is just great - both in stability and in design. > ciao
