Should Qsampler be dropped from Ubuntu archives?

[ttoine at ttoine.net]

Ok. thanks for the info.

Toine


Luis de Bethencourt a écrit :
> 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
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> On Nov 29, 2007 9:25 AM, ttoine at ttoine.net <ttoine at ttoine.net> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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>> Yvan Vander Sanden a écrit :
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>>     
>>> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
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>>>> 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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