[Clam-devel] License check report

[David García Garzón]

A Dimecres 25 Febrer 2009 20:42:27, Hernán Ordiales va escriure:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM, David García Garzón
>
> <dgarcia at iua.upf.edu> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 16:58:26 Hernán Ordiales wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, David García Garzón
> >>
> >> <dgarcia at iua.upf.edu> wrote:
> >> > Context: debian requirement to sumarize all the copyright information
> >> > in a single file for the package.
> >> >
> >> > After passing out licensecheck command, the found licenses are:
> >> >
> >> > GPLv2 but originally LGPL:
> >> > ./CLAM/deprecated/extended.cxx
> >> > - I removed them since they were in deprecated and not used.
> >> >
> >> > GPLv2 but not later:
> >> > ./CLAM/plugins/GuitarEffects/ZynDistortion/ZynDistortion.cxx
> >> > ./CLAM/plugins/GuitarEffects/ZynDistortion/ZynDistortion.hxx
> >> > - Code comes from zynaddsubfx
> >> >
> >> > MIT:
> >> > ./CLAM/plugins/MIDI/RtMidi.cxx
> >> > ./CLAM/plugins/MIDI/RtMidi.hxx
> >> > ./CLAM/src/Tools/AudioIO/RtAudio/RtAudio.cxx
> >> > ./CLAM/src/Tools/AudioIO/RtAudio/RtAudio.hxx
> >> > - They are adapted scavone's examples. RtAudio have wrongly included
> >> > the UPF license besides scavone's one.
> >>
> >> i think these Rt(MIDI/Audio) files are the libraries by itself, not
> >> examples
> >
> > My question is: are we still using those RtAudio and RtMidi stuff?
>
> not sure about RtAudio, but we're using RtMidi for all the MIDI plugins
> stuff

Being MIT we just need to acknoledge and keep the license which is not a major 
problem.

> > Also, can we do anything about ZynDistortion? GPLv3 is a futurible
> > although it just taints the plugin.
>
> there is no true copy&paste from entire ZynAddSubFx files i just took
> the math formulae from distortions and adapted to clam c++ style, so
> maybe is ok to update the license as we want, don't? (keeping the
> references of course)

I think a 'reference' would be ok if you just took the formula and 
reimplemented it but if you mean by 'formula' the implementation of the 
formula (so you wrapped the 'formula' code with a clam object) then i guess is 
a derivative work.





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