On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, <lase...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > After numerous back and forth emails with the Impro-Visor guy I realized > there was no way to get through to him. This was even after a number of > people on the Yahoo group for the program sided with him and I set them > straight on the facts. Each one of them changed their position, but this > guy would not despite any statement of facts, evidence, etc. So no point > in trying to reason with unreasonable people. > > Thus, I have started a SourceForge project to host Impro-Visor stuff (yes, > with the source code) and possibly a new line of development on a fork. > Right now it is just important to make the binaries/code easily available > for everyone (as guaranteed by the GPL). Only the last stable version is > up at the moment (version 3.39). > > If anybody wants to join the project feel free, even people from the original > project are welcome because this is about opening it up, not taking it over > (which is sort of a slam I received from that guy when I let him know that > the application binaries/source would be hosted on another project). > > I wanted to cooperate with people, but it was just too difficult for them to > admit being wrong. So instead of just posting the source code for their > latest preview, it was pulled. In spite of all their protests that they were > completely in the right, the application was removed. Basically, an > admittance that the GPL was being violated. Anyway, I still have that > preview and the source code (via disassembler) and can possibly still put > that up a little bit later. > > Raymond > > Improvisor: http://sourceforge.net/projects/improvisor > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev >
While you have every right to fork the code, one quibble I have (most likely just with your wording) is where you say that they are obligated to provide the binary. They have no such obligation whatsoever. If they provide a binary they are obligated to provide source, but they are free to offer neither without violating the GPL. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev