Comments regarding pd-arraysize_0.1-1_amd64.changes

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 07:57, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:21:54AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 14:00 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, expr is GPL and arraysize is public domain, so some  
>>>> people
>>>> will use arraysize for that reason (i.e. a proprietary app based  
>>>> on Pd like
>>>> rjdj).
>>>
>>> Good point.
>>
>> Maybe so for upstream development, but irrelevant for Debian  
>> packaging, I
>> believe.
>
> The decision of wether to package or not a piece of software certainly
> must consider the license available. Note that making software
> proprietary is not the only reason to avoid GPLed dependencies.


All I am saying is that people decide to use libraries based on their  
license.  I've packaged public domain, BSD, LGPL, and GPL software for  
Debian at this point, it doesn't affect what I package.

I am also not saying that anyone should or shouldn't use [arraysize].   
I am saying that many people use it, and find it useful (myself  
included) and therefore I packaged it.

As for a bundle of simple Pd libs, there really aren't others like  
arraysize, so it'd likely be a bundle of one.

As for the 'flatspace' collection upstream, I think its a bad hack,  
and I plan on removing it from Pd-extended, and I won't package it.

.hc


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