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Re: Copyright? (Keep Csound PD)

Date1997-03-06 18:14
FromSteven Curtin
SubjectRe: Copyright? (Keep Csound PD)
>>Of course the most of the work was by Barry Vercoe; the main sources are
>>public domain and anyone can customize and modify them for personal
>>purposes. But the main source files MUST remain platform indepenent. 
>
>I'd like to bring up my copyright question again: Is it ok now to modify and
>repost Csound? I was under the impression that this was not permitted under
>the MIT copyright. For example, at one time I wanted to post Csound on
>Compuserve but was told that this wasn't permitted. What's the story here?

I am reminded of the Free Software Foundation's 'copyleft' policy- you are
free to modify and use any of their sources.  The price for this is that
your modifications and the source to same must be publicly available at any
time.  This is a paraphrase of their licence agreement for GNU C and other
utilities and may not reflect the exact wording, but I think the spirit of
it applies in part to Csound and I join John in requesting that Gabriel at
least share his WAV stereo bug fix with us.

regards,

Steven Curtin
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