On 28/03/2014 14:49, Simon Wise wrote: > On 28/03/14 23:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 28 March 2014 08:34:28 Guillaume Pellerin did opine: >> >>> It seems that BitWig infringes the GPL: vamp-aubio is in there whereas >>> the GPL is not mentioned in legal.html, neither Paul Brossier, the >>> author of aubio... >>> >>> http://files.parisson.com/doc/bitwig/legal.html >>> >>> :'( >>> >>> G >> >> Two files are GPLv3. No, only LGPLv3 is mentioned.. But the way I read the rest of that, its a minefield, >> full of bouncing betties for the un-aware. I wouldn't advise downloading it >> until those restrictions are lifted, every one of them. Otherwise you >> could find yourself in a legal quagmire. > > nothing in that document seems wrong ... most of it is BSD style licenses and > the appropriate acknowledgements are there, a few are LGPL, which certainly > allow use linked to closed code, and there is an offer to deliver source code > at cost of delivery. Perhaps including the sources for those parts alongside the > deb would have been a bit nicer, but they are libraries distributed for use with > closed code and especially if they are simply used as the original binaries then > all seems appropriate. None of the authors chose strict copyleft licenses. > Maybe I haven't been clear enough.. The current BitWig package includes vamp-aubio: $ ls /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/vamp-plugins/ transient-detector.so vamp-aubio.so but vamp-aubio embeds libaubio which is GPL and then should be a least mentioned. But as Alexandre got it from the BitWig team on twitter, aubio is not used anymore by the app and will be removed from it. G _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
