On Thursday, January 27, 2011 04:02:20 pm Christopher Cherrett did opine: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release > From: gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> > To: linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > Date: 01/27/2011 01:57 PM > > > On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:43:40 pm Chris Cannam did opine: > >> On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher > >> Cherrett<ccherr...@openoctave.org> > > > > wrote: > >>> I suspect there is much more to this puzzle than attribution. > >> > >> No, really not. Attribution is incredibly important to many open > >> source developers, partly because there are so few tangible benefits > >> involved with open source work, and partly because the force of the > >> licenses we use (particularly the GPL) depends on being confident > >> about the ownership of copyright. It matters a great deal to people > >> if you take someone's work and represent it as your own. > >> > >> And it's a pity, because a situation like this or the earlier > >> Rosegarden fork ought to be beneficial to everybody. With > >> Rosegarden, your project's focus was different from that of any of > >> our core developers and, although we like to keep people happy, we > >> really weren't able to spend the time to do the things you wanted. > >> Forking ensured that people who liked things "your way" had > >> somewhere else to go, which made things better for them and simpler > >> for us. > >> > >> In light of that, it's a great shame that the resulting new project > >> should then give us such a sour impression -- and the same thing is > >> true again here. Your casual attitude to other people's work means > >> that I and probably many others would avoid working with you again, > >> but that negative feeling could have been avoided with such a tiny > >> amount of thought and even less work. > >> > >> > >> Chris > > > > +1000 > > > > This very well said, Chris. I personally do not have a dog in this > > fight, but had that been some of my now elderly code, I think I would > > be justified in calling this new effort out, as has now been more > > than amply done by others here, and the point _has_ been made. > > Unfortunately, I am probably doing little except contributing to the > > roar of disapproval by the crowd.:( > > > > To Alex and your crew: > > > > It is likely that this contretemps will not fully settle until such > > time as the proper attributions have been restored and a new release > > containing those attributions has been made. > > > > Defensive attitudes do not cut it, performance does. > > A new release? What exactly do you expect?
The correct attributions, possibly with a sentence or 2 describing how the fork came to be in the README in download able package. What, 10 minutes work plus the repacking? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon I _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev