or, better said, I had one like all the people that were there in first weeks and months after its birth and inception (linuxsampler project): the most ridiculous of all that is this: the infamous LS license, which is suupposed to be written as GPLv2 with an additional clause that makes it void in the first place, has been refuted by all LS devs. but yet the original concept creator/author (Benno) is M.I.A. almost a decade now and (the mighty) ethos of ours say that (we) cannot correct the LS license to plain GPLv2+ as it should have been from day-one or to any other else for that matter.
sorry, we just can't, at least without Benno's explicit consent, which is nowhere to be heard nor found to date.
now, you as an individual personal user may well get the LS source code and use it to your own purposes--there is not a single hindrance for you to do just that: it is open-source still! though, you'll probably run into the void, grey or otherwise foggy legal area if you ever distribute the LS program in anyway, source or binary.
may you now understand why no free-software packager are ever to distribute LS (the server-side software) to the masses ?
of course I have
or, better said, I had one like all the people that were there in first weeks and months after its birth and inception (linuxsampler project): the most ridiculous of all that is this: the infamous LS license, which is suupposed to be written as GPLv2 with an additional clause that makes it void in the first place, has been refuted by all LS devs. but yet the original concept creator/author (Benno) is M.I.A. almost a decade now and (the mighty) ethos of ours say that (we) cannot correct the LS license to plain GPLv2+ as it should have been from day-one or to any other else for that matter.
sorry, we just can't, at least without Benno's explicit consent, which is nowhere to be heard nor found to date.
now, you as an individual personal user may well get the LS source code and use it to your own purposes--there is not a single hindrance for you to do just that: it is open-source still! though, you'll probably run into the void, grey or otherwise foggy legal area if you ever distribute the LS program in anyway, source or binary.
may you now understand why no free-software packager are ever to distribute LS (the server-side software) to the masses ?
hope you grok the (long and old) mess ;)
cheers