linuxsampler?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 09/29/2015 04:49 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> 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.
> 

i'm aware of the exception, but thought that non-free might be ok.

while i don't care much about your 1st point, the 2nd one is obviously
important (and the FSF seems to agree with you [1]). so:
- has anybody asked for advice on debian-legal?
- has anybody asked upstream to change their license to another free
license that allows a non-commercial clause? (assuming that there is
little point in trying to persuade them into dropping the non-commercial
clause).

gfmsadr
IOhannes


[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoMilitary

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