linuxsampler?

Alessio Treglia alessio at debian.org
Tue Sep 29 14:49:40 UTC 2015


On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:29 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
<umlaeute at debian.org> wrote:
> it apparently is non-free, but is this the only reason?
> (i searched the net, but couldn't find anything)

It's a long standing issue, upstream releases it under a sort GPL with
a commercial exception [1], that makes

 1. no sense at all
 2. the whole software package in conflict with the GPL itself

I don't think we could even upload it to non-free, though I'm not 100% sure.

[1] https://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html#exception

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