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Re: [Cs-dev] Winsound license

Date2006-03-24 15:35
FromMichael Gogins
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Winsound license
Since the Winsound project is not LGPL-compatible I think I should remove it from the Windows installer.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Istvan Varga 
>Sent: Mar 24, 2006 5:58 AM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Winsound license
>
>On Friday 24 March 2006 07:59, jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
>
>> It was a gesture of annoyance at the waste of the only time I had to
>> finish the code.
>
>Well, you need not worry about that, as I will not ever edit that file
>again, even though I do see bugs in it (I assume that you will find and
>fix them) and there are things that could be done better.
>However, as far as I know, the SourceForge terms of use require the
>hosted projects to be open source, free software, which Winsound currently
>is not. It is also unfortunate to have non-free code added to the sources
>when it all has benn LGPL previously; this could possibly even prevent
>some Linux distributions that currently include various Csound 4.xx
>releases from switching to version 5.
>
>> Personally I would prefer it to have my original Csound licence, but
>> the lawyers may not like that either. 
>
>Do you mean the old "educational and research purposes only" license ?
>
>
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