On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:44:17PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > Apart from my last paragraph (about using what suites best) I never talked > about my priorities. Hmmm... maybe I guessed wrong. Since you seem to support linuxsampler in spite of its license, I was thinking that your priority was features over freedom. Sorry if it was not the case (maybe you was not aware of the commercial exception, then ???). > But I would be really curious which other objective mistakes (apart from the > ls-stuff) you found in my mail. The others are more or less subjective, except for the definition of what is a free file format; I'm also sure you are missing something regarding this other issue, just give me some time to find the link (I've read it a long time ago and don't have it right now...) I will send it to you by private email, since I think that most people in the list won't care very much about this ;-) > I never said that fluidsynth isn't free. I only said that both gig and sf2 are > not free formats. (free as in defined by the fsf (could have picked any other > real-free-organization)) Now I wonder, in your opinion, what's required to make a file format "free" besides its internal documentation? An ISO stardard or something "official"? > But: I just checked my local tarball of 0.5.1 and while the README states the > non-commercial exception, neither the COPYING-file with the license text nor > the source-files itself have that exception. But I don't want to restart > these old discussions... It is not a legal requirement to have the complete license notice in all files. There are many sources that don't even include the GPL header at all (like the esound sources, if I remember correctly), but I agree that it would be much better to always put it, just to be clear. > Maybe someone should start freesampler... ;-) It is on my task list since about one year! :-) I'm been very busy involved in other free software projects (and still I am), so it will remain in my task list for a long time, I'm afraid :-( _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
