Should Qsampler be dropped from Ubuntu archives?

[Yvan Vander Sanden]

Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> If you say it is so close to gpl... Why don't they license it gpl or
> any other known license with a foundation behind?
>
> When a linuxsampler developer gives me a valid purpose I will start
> agreeing with them. Or they license it gpl or any other free license
> for that matter, we will ship it by default.
>
> For now, they have their own license, which is never cool. And that
> license has ambiguos terms as you mention, that can be taken to be
> very free or dictatorship. As a contributor to a distro that deploys
> software to a _LOT_ of people. I can't take the risk of
> misinterpreting a license, and breaking it, or even worse, making the
> users break it.
>
> Not talking about you, Yvan, but most end users don't care about
> licenses. So we have to care for us and for them. Sadly enough, free
> software development isn't excempt of a lot of legal issues (which are
> boring and tedious).
>   
I agree. It is a sound reason to refuse software if it's not GPL. I was 
only worried because I thought there was a misinterpretation, and a 
judgment made for the wrong reasons could polarize people. As a final 
point I'd like to mention i don't use samplers myself. So it doesn't 
have anything to do with my personal preferences.

Regards,

yvan