Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of fluxus - savannah.gnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

address@hidden writes:
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Dave Griffiths <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: fluxus
 > System name: fluxus
 > Type: GNU
 > 
 > Description:
 > Fluxus is a small realtime render engine for linux that generates animation 
 > from sound.
 > 
 > Procedural shapes can be built with values derived from the content of 
 > specific harmonics in the incoming sound. Also availible is a full physics 
 > system built from the ode library, and a simple artificial life flocking 
 > system.
 > 
 > Fluxus adheres to the livecoding philosopy (see http://www.toplap.org/) and 
 > has been used on stage in live performance programming.
 > 
 > The application consists of a 3D render engine built on top of OpenGL, which 
 > is bound via guile to a scheme interpreter. The user can control the 
 > application only by entering scheme commands or by running previously saved 
 > scripts, using the script editor GUI window.
 > 
 > http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > guile      http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
 > fltk       http://www.fltk.org/
 > ode        http://opende.sourceforge.net/
 > fftw       http://www.fftw.org/
 > portaudio  http://www.portaudio.com/
 > libsndfile http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > 
 
The copyright notices in the source files have the term
``Copyleft''. This does not have any legal meaning, so please use
Copyright in the notices. For more information, please see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#WhatIsCopyleft : "To
copyleft a program, we first state that it is copyrighted", so they
understand Copyleft is based on Copyright, it is not public domain.


The license of portaudio seems GPL-incompatible and possibly unfree
because of its second condition. We have asked address@hidden
regarding this issue. Do you want us to contact the portaudio
developer and ask if she/he wants to release it under BSD or GNU LGPL?

Thanks,

Alaska Subedi