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Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program



On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
> >>>>> "fpl" == Francesco P Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     fpl> I wonder if that classic package can stay in our archives
>     fpl> (also non-free). Did you check deeply its license at BATH? 
>     fpl> IMHO it's simply a nightmare...
> 
>     fpl> http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/Copyrights
> 
> As far as I  know, much work  has gone into  csound to ensure that all
> copyright holders agreed to switching the license of the whole work to
> GNU   LGPL.  Again,  AFAIK  all  copyright   holders have given  their
> permission, and the work can rightfully be considered libre software.
> 
> I'm putting Nicola Bernardini, one of Csound authors, to see if he can
> help us clarify the matter.
> 
> If necessary, we (as the AGNULA project) will  clarify things with the
> relevant  persons (although we  are packaging it now  and we did check
> that we could do it).
> 

That's great. And my compliments to csound team.

PS: Nice hear you again, Adrea.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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