Hi David, Daniel, Quentin and list :) if I'm not mistaken you David are author for a linux magazine. Someone is using the source code of LMMS to make money and it seems to be legal and it might be an advantage to spread this software, anyhow, I do feel bad with this situation. I'm not a user of LMMS, but I know that LMMS is one of the really good FLOSS projects, it fits to the needs of many musicians.
There is something called 'Beatmachine', http://www.beatmachinepro.com/, and as I have written before, there seems to be nothing criminal with this, but if someone can sell it, it seems to be an application that is wanted by users and I guess it would be fair to donate the original coders too. Is it possible for you or anyone else to make a report about LMMS (without dissing Beatmachine). I guess if FLOSS is asked in a way that people are able to get money by this, the original authors at least should get respect for doing a good job. I guess Tobias Dörfel is head of the project, I might be wrong. This is his email address: tobias.doerf...@gmail.com Maybe you will contact him?! I'm not sure if 64 Studio is including LMMS by default, but if so, Daniel or Quentin can you please highlight that a FLOSS application is such popular, that people make it some kind of proprietary like? I guess it's complete different to use FLOSS for something like Indamixx, because it's disclosed and an independent progress, but Beatmachine for me and some others feels more like a robbery. This is the link to the LMMS archive and the thread about this issu: http://www.nabble.com/Wow-to24222651.html Cheers, Ralf -- Secret of Tux: http://images.wallaceandgromit.com/user_uploads/forum_thumbnails/5/75/355.jpg "Gromit bit me" says HMV dog: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_03/GomitHMVPA_468x319.jpg _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list 64studio-users@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users