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MarcBoule / Geodesics

A Modular Collection for VCV Rack by Pyer and Marc Boulé
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Please use GPLv3.0+ instead of GPLv3.0-only license #4

Open falkTX opened 2 years ago

falkTX commented 2 years ago

Hi there, I have noticed that all of your projects are licensed as GPLv3.0-only, instead of the more common GPLv3.0+ Is there a reason for this?

If one wants to integrate your code into another open-source project, the only license possible would be GPLv3.0, which is not very nice... If using GPLv3.0+ we could mix it together with GPLv2.0+ and future GPLv4, v5 etc

Using GPLv3.0-only as the code license is problematic going forward, if GPLv4 ever gets released. (GPLv4 supposedly will add restrictions for AI scrappers, like done on GitHub, stuff that reads code and "generates" new stuff via AI. Currently GPL does not provide anything against it)

Is this something you would be willing to change? I can answer license related questions if you have any, since I have been dealing with those for a long time (but FYI I am no lawyer, just an open-source developer and packager)

The target is to include your modules in a 100% open-source and free VCV plugin version See https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/1 for details and news

If you do not want to change the license, please let me know, I will promptly remove your modules/code from the Cardinal project.

PS: Aria was really awesome and already did the update, can be seen at https://github.com/AriaSalvatrice/AriaModules/commit/484bea306ab6bff5edd4b8abade3f3e55cfe7c18 There is also a similar issue at https://github.com/Tonecarver/tcRackModules/issues/7

falkTX commented 2 years ago

Small addition here, might be worth mentioning that https://vcvrack.com/manual/PluginLicensing recommends using gplv3+ as well.

MarcBoule commented 2 years ago

Hi, after talking it over with my colleague with whom I manage this project, were going to stay with the current lisence for the time being. Yet we will consider making the change in a near future according to how things develop with Cardinal.

jypma commented 2 years ago

Have there been any further thoughts on this? Geodesics is one of the most popular modules still missing from Cardinal, and it would be awesome to see it included.

Can you share some of the arguments of preferring GPLv3.0-only over GPL-3.0-or-later? I expect this can be helpful when discussing with other module authors as well.

MarcBoule commented 2 years ago

No further thoughts at this time unfortunately. We'll keep the issue open and let you know when we have more to say on this.

mpicard commented 1 year ago

Has anything changed or updates on this?

MarcBoule commented 1 year ago

Not that I know of, but the person deciding this is Pierre (aka Pyer), so perhaps it's best if you contact him directly: design@pierrecollard.com