Should Qsampler be dropped from Ubuntu archives?

[Luis de Bethencourt]

Ttoine,

The situation is not the same as MySQL or QT. I've contacted the
linuxsampler main developer and he's closing it this way because other
programs use linuxsampler not as a library but through sockets.

Anyway, I will try to share some ideas of how to fix this with him.

Luis de Bethencourt

On Nov 29, 2007 9:25 AM, ttoine at ttoine.net <ttoine at ttoine.net> wrote:
> I agree with Cory.
>
> However, think that you can compare this discussion with the licence of
> Mysql, wich is GPL if the application is non commercial or GPL, and they
> have a possibility to make a commercial licence for closed source
> software using their librairies. It is quite the same problematic, and
> ofr what I know, mysql is in Ubuntu (for lamp servers)
>
> So waiting for a statement of linuxsampler team is a good thing, but
> imho we can package and distribute linuxsampler in Ubuntu.
>
> Toine
>
>
>
> Yvan Vander Sanden a écrit :
>
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>
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