Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On 10/17/07, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Marcos Guglielmetti: > > > Will gigaedit be able to play .gig files by itself? > > > I mean: linuxsampler is not free software as in freedom, so, It would > > > be nice to have some replacement. > > What is hindering you on using the latest GPL-version? Which afaik > > (without checking) is the latest stable released version anyway... > I believe the point is that all of the latest versions, for at least 2 > years now, are not GPL. The license was modified. I am not a lawyer, but neither the COPYING-file nor the (randomly picked) src/linuxsampler.cpp state anything but gplv2 (or later) for the license. The README states something about getting the authors authorization to use the app in commercial software or hardware. While I think this is some legit modification because they don't want their work to be used commercially without them knowing, I don't think this rule applies as they probably didn't ask all the participating authors (and the AUTHORS file states quite a few) for their permission to change the license. Which leads me to believe that linuxsampler is (still) free software as in free-software-defined-by-the-fsf. Or anyone who made a contribution to linuxsampler before the change in the license and wasn't asked about the license-change can request for reversing the license-change or their contribution to be removed from LS. Have fun, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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