Licensing: linking to arts

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Licensing: linking to arts

Post by raboof » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:41 pm

A quick 'ldd' of LinuxSampler showed that it links to libartsc.

However, libartsc is under the GPL, while LinuxSampler is not (as it adds an exception). Doesn't this make distribution LinuxSampler a violation of the libartsc license?
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Re: Licensing: linking to arts

Post by ccherrett » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:44 am

raboof wrote:A quick 'ldd' of LinuxSampler showed that it links to libartsc.

However, libartsc is under the GPL, while LinuxSampler is not (as it adds an exception). Doesn't this make distribution LinuxSampler a violation of the libartsc license?
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Re: Licensing: linking to arts

Post by cuse » Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:54 pm

No it's not, it's released under the GNU Library General Public License.
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Re: Licensing: linking to arts

Post by raboof » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:24 pm

cuse wrote:No it's not, it's released under the GNU Library General Public License.
You're right - the debian copyright file suggests otherwise, but libartsc is definitely under the LGPL, so it's prefectly allright for LS to link to it.

Sorry ;)
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