The licensing issues are well known upstream, and have been discussed multiple times on the mailing lists (I'd point you at the archives, but sourceforge doesn't maintain stable URLs for mailing list messages: search the archives for 2005 (and early 2006)). At one point it was thought that the restriction was added to CVS after the 0.3.3 release, although it was later discovered it had been there all along (according to the current FAQ on the linuxsampler homepage).
Some participants in past threads have noted that such a license makes it not meet the standards of either the Open Source Iniitiative or the Free Software Foundation. Although the source code is available, it may not be entirely correct to call it either "open source" or "free software", depending on your interpretation. One interpretation of the license restrictions allows upstream to distribute linuxsampler (although no other party). Using this interpretation, upstream has begun to provide binary packages for a variety of distributions. It may be possible to ask that they include Ubuntu in their list of supported installation targets (currently that includes Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, WIndows, and Mac). -- [needs-packaging] linuxsampler https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252330 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
