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

2009-08-05 Thread Sampo Savolainen
Quoting alex stone compos...@gmail.com: 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

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

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Sampo Savolainen hat gesagt: // Sampo Savolainen wrote: So, at least at the moment I'm leaning towards accepting the offered solution to the violation. Any thoughts? I'd say, accept it. Beat Kangzs seem to be willing to fix their mistake, which is all that this is about. It's not

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

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Harris
On 5 Aug 2009, at 09:38, Arnold Krille wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:53:21 Sampo Savolainen wrote: So, at least at the moment I'm leaning towards accepting the offered solution to the violation. Any thoughts? Ask them to become a sponsor of the next LAC! Now that is a good plan. -

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

2009-08-05 Thread Ronald Stewart
LAC sponsor... super smart suggestion ron On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Steve Harris st...@plugin.org.uk wrote: On 5 Aug 2009, at 09:38, Arnold Krille wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:53:21 Sampo Savolainen wrote: So, at least at the moment I'm leaning towards accepting the offered

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

2009-08-05 Thread Patrick Shirkey
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 I think it would be safe to say that if this AJ character decided to post here then things would get a little more heated and some anger would

[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! - 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! - 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! - 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. ___