On Thursday 01 December 2005 16:54, Istvan Varga wrote:

> On Thursday 01 December 2005 16:07, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> > It is a bytecode file, for Java VM, thus multiplatform; it is supplied in
> > case there are difficulties with classpaths etc. It is only ca 600k.
> > Serves as an example. Don't remove it! (if you do I'll add it again)
>
> Well, it can be built from CSDPlayer.java, so there is not really
> a reason to include it, particularly given that it is only an
> example. Also, the 600k is actually quite large if you consider
> that it cannot be compressed to a significantly smaller size,
> and that the actual useful source code is less than 2 MB when
> compressed to a .tar.gz. That is almost 30% for a binary file
> that can be built from other files that are included, and is
> useless to most people. By the way, another file that should be
> moved away eventually is windows_dlls/liblo.a.bz2 that is slightly
> less than 900k; with these two files, almost half of a source
> tarball of Csound 5 is binary junk. And, do not forget people who
> download CVS sources on a slow network connection with the -z9
> option.

Also, the inclusion of liblo.a with the Csound source code (without
any copyright notice, full text of the GPL, etc.) is possibly not
legal.


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