Re: MusicKit licensing

[Dennis Leeuw]

Hi Leigh,

Thanks for the clear and extensive explanation! Great!

Let me first clarify something: I don't expect MusicKit to become GPL, 
LGPL would be nice, but no need for that eighter. I think I can settle 
for APSL 2.0 since that gives me enough room to work with.

I want to be able to supply source and binary packages for eternity if 
needed. And be able to update the source if somehow the project dies. 
Next to that people should be able to link open source packages against 
Music Kit and it would be nice if commercial packages can do the same.

I'm gonna snip a lot of your e-mail to keep this small:

> > The commercial projects include Sequence which were distributed prior  
> > to the MusicKit project taking over the MK maintenance. Recent  
> > commercial projects that I know of have used portions of the codebase  
> > which are fully under the current license and do not use NeXT code,  
> > i.e the frameworks (SndKit, MKPerformSndMIDI) I mentioned above.

The SndKit SndMeter.m file states:
<quote>
* "Portions Copyright (c) 1999 Apple Computer, Inc.  All Rights
 * Reserved.  This file contains Original Code and/or Modifications of
 * Original Code as defined in and that are subject to the Apple Public
 * Source License Version 1.0 (the 'License').  You may not use this file
 * except in compliance with the License.  Please obtain a copy of the
 * License at http://www.apple.com/publicsource and read it before using
 * this file.
</quote>

Which, while talking to Apple, could probably be resolved by using APSL 2.0

SndKit and MKPerformSndMIDI both contain such copyright statements. 
(example MKPerformSndMIDI: soundstruct.h)

If you could resolve these issues with Apple: great!

I think that LGPL would solve all your issues, but can imagine that 
Apple would like to use their APSL.

I would like to thank you for your time and hope you have a nice talk 
with the people at Apple.

Kind regards,

Dennis Leeuw