Re: Ocean and the search for a Music Framework

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com> wrote on 29.02.2004 21:44:14:

> 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.

What I would do here If I were you in that situation: Ask the developers 
of MusicKit (<leigh@leighsmith.com> and <musickit@ccrma.stanford.edu>). 
They _should_ know what is possible and what not: no more guessing and 
assuming necessary ...

> 
> Dennis Leeuw
> 

greetings, Lars

>