On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:03, Dave Phillips wrote: >Frank Barknecht wrote: >>According to their words: "COMMERCIAL USE of the souce code, >> libraries and applications is NOT ALLOWED without prior written >> permission by the LinuxSampler authors" no professional musician is >> allowed to use LinuxSampler except with a written permission. > >Frank, where did you get this text ? It's not the text I quoted from > the LS README : > >"The LinuxSampler library (liblinuxsampler) and its applications are >distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see >COPYING file), but with the EXCEPTION that they may NOT be used in >COMMERCIAL software or hardware products without prior written >authorization by the authors." Its my understanding of the GPL that you CANNOT apply additional restrictions and still call it "GPL". I'd suggest they consult with an attorney before they write such foolery. >This is from recent CVS sources. > >Best, > >dp -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
