21st-century Csound

Posted Nov 8, 2012 14:26 UTC (Thu) by fsateler (subscriber, #65497)
Parent article: 21st-century Csound

> Csound has always been open-source software.

It depends on how you define open-source. The previous MIT license allowed only non-commercial use, so it failed the usual open-source/free software definitions.

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Posted Nov 8, 2012 14:58 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (3 responses)

That doesn't make sense. If it only allows non-commercial use, it isn't the MIT license as we normally denote it.

21st-century Csound

Posted Nov 8, 2012 15:31 UTC (Thu) by fsateler (subscriber, #65497) [Link] (2 responses)

That's because it wasn't. It was a license by MIT, not the MIT license.

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Posted Nov 8, 2012 16:25 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow, that's a distinction the article needed to express better.

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Posted Nov 12, 2012 11:34 UTC (Mon) by StudioDave (guest, #84346) [Link]

Quoting from the article:

"covered by a license from MIT"

Someone must have a copy of it somewhere. Mine disappeared with my hardcopy manual from 1989.

It was probably good enough at the time Csound first appeared, but by the late 1990s Csound developers were discussing a switch to the GPL. Eventually they agreed upon the LGPL.

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