Re: Ocean and the search for a Music Framework

[Dennis Leeuw]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 29.02.04 um 14:06 Uhr schrieb Dennis Leeuw:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As I noted before I wanted to support MusicKit as a part of Ocean.
> >
> > Thanks to Jeff Teunissen I have decided to skip MusicKit due to the 
> > risk of the copyrights within MusicKit. There are too many NeXT and 
> > Apple copyrights to take the risk of inclusion.
>
>
> What did Mr. Teunissen tell you?

He just warned me.

 Where here
> (http://musickit.sourceforge.net/license.html) do you read something 
> about a NeXT and Apple copyright?

Nope not an that page. But just do a grep -r NeXT * in the MusicKit 
sources or Apple for that matter.

> > I am sorry to have to report this, but as it stands now I don't think 
> > MusicKit can and ever will be an OpenSource/Free Software kit.
>
>
> I think to demand that all software that should be used with GNUstep 
> _must_ have the copyright assigned to RMS is a little over the top. BTW 
> german law explicitly forbids the assignment of the copyright to 
> somebody else.

Nope no need for that. But a line like:
(c) NeXT all rights reserved
Is somewhat problematic for me. I am not a lawer, I don't have the 
knowledge to investigate what it can mean to me now, nor in the future.
And it is in a lot of .h files... :(

If someone can garantee me that I won't get into trouble, that I can 
treat it as Open Source... that I might think it over. But for now there 
are too much things in there that I feel might me get into trouble.

Dennis Leeuw