Re: good news for my PhD

[John Mandereau]

Hi Valentin,
Valentin Villenave a écrit :
> Josh is right, this sentence doesn't really make sense. We recently
> had a discussion about this very subject with John, who 's in the same
> situation as you are, and is merely forced to contribute to
> proprietary music software :-)
>   
If I'd like to develop some musical applications of the math topics 
(homometry, phase retrieval) I'm studying
and researching, it will be for one piece of software that their authors 
would like to distribute under LGPL
but that the IRCAM direction and Forum (that's responsible for 
distributing IRCAM software) want to
distribute with a proprietary license, which in the case of OpenMusic is 
made very easy just by choosing
proprietary Lisp compilers.  No working binaries from LGPL sources have 
been made available
(because it's a pain to get it working on one particular GNU/Linux 
operating system), so in the current
state all my contributions will be distributed as proprietary software; 
to make my soul more quiet, I'd like
to make it working again on GNU/Linux, but I'm not sure I'm able to do 
it within the 3 months left to me at
the IRCAM.

Cheers,
John