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Re:OpenMusic by keithpeter on Saturday August 02, 2014 @02:34PM (#8125560)
To summarise: I can download and use OpenMusic the source code of which is issued under the GPL. But to exercise my free software style rights to hack on OpenMusic and recompile the changed software I need to buy a licence for a closed commercial product.

Have I got that right?

Re:OpenMusic by _delirium on Saturday August 02, 2014 @02:51PM (#8125612)
Depends entirely on what kind of hacking you want to do. If you want to pull out parts that are portable Common Lisp and use those, you're free to do so. If you want to hack the code so the whole thing compiles on SBCL, you're free to do that too. Similar situation to free-software apps whose developer targets OSX: no legal barrier to using the code on Linux, but may take some work.