Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Arnold Krille
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 09:33:22 Nick Bailey wrote: On Monday 03 Aug 2009 21:29:48 Michael Fisher wrote: No problem. It's not really fair to put a 'skin' around free software, call it your own, and then sell it. The only thing I ask is that my name be left out of the letter that may be

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you have to make your changes available for free. Huh? I think, you're confusing something here.

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Frank Barknechtf...@footils.org wrote: Hallo, Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you have to make your

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Arnold Krille
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 11:21:34 Chris Cannam wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Frank Barknechtf...@footils.org wrote: Hallo, Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: Woohoo..I'm safe. Saffire Pro 10 working well. FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller Good news :). Dunno, but maybe BIOS versions and other issues might have an effect to this. If so, this might be interesting for

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
David Robillard wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:49 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Actually the most free software development happens in a Do-cracy: The one who does the job (or the biggest part of it) gets to decide. and the rest complain on mailing lists :) Please try to

Re: [LAD] Test app for LADSPA plugins

2009-08-04 Thread Damon Chaplin
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 23:16 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote: This testing is great stuff. It would be cool to have a buildbot (http://buildbot.net) and run this regularly. Ideally test-tools would be part of ladspa/lv2 sdk and the plugin-packages add running the test tools as part of make check.

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Harris
On 4 Aug 2009, at 09:32, Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you have to make your changes available for free. So if they just use the plugins without any

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Harris
On 4 Aug 2009, at 10:21, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Frank Barknechtf...@footils.org wrote: Hallo, Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you use.

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Harris
On 4 Aug 2009, at 13:15, Steve Harris wrote: I'm a but rusty on these issues, but my reading of the GPLv2 (many years ago now) was that LADSPA plugins in it do not infect the host with their licence. There used to be a clear distinction between runtime linking, and loadtime linking. D'oh. I

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Steve Harrisst...@plugin.org.uk wrote: On 4 Aug 2009, at 13:15, Steve Harris wrote: I'm a but rusty on these issues, but my reading of the GPLv2 (many years ago now) was that LADSPA plugins in it do not infect the host with their licence. There used to be a

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:43:34AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote: Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about giving access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you have to make

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Forest Bond hat gesagt: // Forest Bond wrote: Question: If you are distributing unmodified GPL code, is it sufficient to point to the GPL project's source code (a link to the release page or something)? I don't think it's sufficient.

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Hi Forest, On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Forest Bond wrote: Question: If you are distributing unmodified GPL code, is it sufficient to point to the GPL project's source code (a link to the release page or something)? No. The GPL sez (section 3): If distribution of executable or object code

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Forest Bondfor...@alittletooquiet.net wrote: If you are distributing unmodified GPL code, is it sufficient to point to the GPL project's source code (a link to the release page or something)? No. You can offer to provide the code only on request (section 3b),

Re: [LAD] Test app for LADSPA plugins

2009-08-04 Thread David Robillard
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 12:59 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 23:16 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote: This testing is great stuff. It would be cool to have a buildbot (http://buildbot.net) and run this regularly. Ideally test-tools would be part of ladspa/lv2 sdk and the

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Dr Nicholas J Bailey
On Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 09:10:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:22AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote: Well, calling it your own is out of order, but as long as they release their source code as required by the GPL, then selling it is a Good Thing (TM). I hope the LADs agree

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dr Nicholas J Baileyn.j.bai...@elec.gla.ac.uk wrote: On Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 09:10:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote: - Is a program that loads LADSPA plugins (at run time) a   'derived work' ? Note that anyone can create a 'clean'   version of ladpsa.h, as some people

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL. This would obviously be absurd. In real life, a court faced with a No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL...

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfieldgabr...@teuton.org wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL. This would obviously be absurd.  

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL... your user would. How can a user comply with the GPL or violate the GPL? A user is just using applications. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] Python and MIDI orientation for a project

2009-08-04 Thread Carlos Sanchiavedraz
You're right Harry. I succumbed to the temptation to reach to more people at the same time :). I'm replying on LAD. //On my mobile device. Sorry for top-posting and any mistakes 2009/8/3, harryhaa...@gmail.com harryhaa...@gmail.com: Hey, Just to say, I think this is mainly related to

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread David Robillard
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:10 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:22AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote: Well, calling it your own is out of order, but as long as they release their source code as required by the GPL, then selling it is a Good Thing (TM). I hope the

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL. This would obviously be absurd.  In real life, a court faced with a No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL...

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, David Robillardd...@drobilla.net wrote: GPL crosses the plugin barrier if they live in the same address space and call each other / share data, etc: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF (That's the bit I meant by convenient

Re: [LAD] Python and MIDI orientation for a project

2009-08-04 Thread Carlos Sanchiavedraz
Maybe I should start with the Alsaseq python package and HelperMudule, but I would like to have Jack MIDI so I'll give MidiDings a try. But remembering the field Midi driver on Qjackctl config I wonder, if it is set to alsa_seq you can see AlsaMidi ports on JackMidi tab, could it be better to

Re: [LAD] Python and MIDI orientation for a project

2009-08-04 Thread Carlos Sanchiavedraz
Really good info, Hernan. Thanks. Just a question, given the names of both, does it mean that pyPortMidi is not for RT? P.S. Nice to write to you again -on other list this time :). //On my mobile device. Sorry for top-posting and any mistakes 2009/8/4, Hernán Ordiales hordia...@gmail.com: Hi

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: effectively copying it, but it seems like a _really_ murky area to me. Not one that I'd ever really considered. It doesn't seem all that plausible, but do you think this view is widely accepted? Yes, I think that it is widely accepted that this is a

[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

2009-08-04 Thread Ronald Stewart
GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz today his name is A.J. and he is a sweetheart and his head is on straight. He is currently going to work on an official statement and he wants to embrace and thank the developers and give the authors credit on their software and

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Sampo Savolainen
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:42 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL. This would obviously be absurd. In real

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Arnold Krille
Hi, On Tuesday 04 August 2009 21:23:20 Sampo Savolainen wrote: I can modify a piece of GPL'd code to my hearts content, link it to my proprietary code, use it for years, all without violating the GPL. A violation would be if I distribute the combination as proprietary (non GPL) software.

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Fisher
Everybody, Good. I wasn't really trying to get Beat Kangz in trouble or anything like that. More than anything I was just disappointed to see that these LADSPA plugins were being distributed with their software with not a single mention of credit to the actual developers. As a computer

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Sampo Savolainen
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 21:46 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 04 August 2009 21:23:20 Sampo Savolainen wrote: I can modify a piece of GPL'd code to my hearts content, link it to my proprietary code, use it for years, all without violating the GPL. A violation would be if I

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Arnold Krillearn...@arnoldarts.de wrote: And I always wonder how Trolltech would enforce people to not use the GPL- version to start development and only buy a commercial license shortly before publishing ones own app for money. They actually can't because the

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sampo Savolainenv...@iki.fi wrote: There's also another aspect. Company A might sell a GPL license for their software X to company B. They might want to do this as X uses or is based on GPL'd code. This means X needs to be licensed under the GPL. A is not

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

2009-08-04 Thread alex stone
Interesting stuff, espcially when you consider that but a week or 2 ago, another chap from a university, who was unaware of the implications of the GPL, got nailed for not releasing his code as per a strict definition of the GPL, and took a lot of sustained abuse for it as a result. He's moved

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Sampo Savolainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:42 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Your user is the one doing the linking (via VST)... so they're the ones making the violation. You have to give special permission to do this:

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Arnold Krille
Hi, On Tuesday 04 August 2009 22:11:40 you wrote: It's a very strange condition I think, and one with countless ambiguities: can you reuse code you previously wrote for a completely separate open source project but own copyright to? Actually you can. If you have to copyright, you can

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Python and MIDI orientation for a project

2009-08-04 Thread Dominic Sacré
On Monday 03 of August 2009 23:06:34 harryhaa...@gmail.com wrote: And on the topic for a second, python bindings exist for MidiDings, a module that can use both AlsaSeq Jack Midi. I have a very limited amound of experince with it, as i found the AlsaSeq python package to be much simpler to

[LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, I'm looking for a high performance (e.g. quad core) machine to be used for audio processing (and running Linux of course). Rack mount is preferred but not essential. What would you recommend to look at ? TIA, -- FA Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.

Re: [LAD] List archives

2009-08-04 Thread Kai Vehmanen
Hi, On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Robin Gareus wrote: There seem to be several archives of this list: http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/ The original LAD list until 2002 server. Since then, they keep backup-copies of all list emails; subscription there is no longer possible. well, to be precise,

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 04 August 2009 21:23:20 Sampo Savolainen wrote: I can modify a piece of GPL'd code to my hearts content, link it to my proprietary code, use it for years, all without violating the GPL. A violation would be if I distribute the combination as

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
alex stone wrote: Call me cynical, and the plugin authors certainly have the last say, but there seems to be a rather large dose of hypocrisy going on here In the last days we simply became wiser. Learning isn't Pecksniffery. ___

Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a high performance (e.g. quad core) machine to be used for audio processing (and running Linux of course). Rack mount is preferred but not essential. What would you recommend to look at ? if noise is not a problem, no problem. if it is,

Re: [LAD] Python and MIDI orientation for a project

2009-08-04 Thread Hernán Ordiales
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Carlos Sanchiavedrazcsanche...@gmail.com wrote: Really good info, Hernan. Thanks. Just a question, given the names of both, does it mean that pyPortMidi is not for RT? no, they are just names, both are realtime capable... P.S. Nice to write to you again -on

Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Hi, I have been using an asus board with intel core quad cpu q6600 for about a year now with no hassles. Does have a fairly noisy fan but I haven't actually looked into replacing it with a quieter system. I have found asus boards to be very compatible with Linux and especially my audio needs

Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-04 Thread Raymond Martin
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:52:23 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a high performance (e.g. quad core) machine to be used for audio processing (and running Linux of course). Rack mount is preferred but not essential. What would you recommend to look at ? I had been

Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-04 Thread David Robillard
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:39 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Hi, I have been using an asus board with intel core quad cpu q6600 for about a year now with no hassles. Ditto. Same CPU on a Asus P5E-VM HDMI -dr ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list