Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-19 Thread Iain Duncan
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:42 PM, David Robillard d...@drobilla.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 20:48 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote: Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like myself between yours and the one in Jack? Congrats btw, that's awesome that

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-19 Thread David Robillard
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 11:44 -0800, Iain Duncan wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:42 PM, David Robillard d...@drobilla.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 20:48 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote: Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-18 Thread David Robillard
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 20:48 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote: Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like myself between yours and the one in Jack? Congrats btw, that's awesome that your work will be in boost! the main difference is prbly that the jack

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Blechmann
part I need library help with is likely synchronization and interprocess/interthread communication. ( ie do I use the jack ringbuffer? Do I look at boost queue implementations? does RAUL have a higher level convenience ring buffer? my boost.lockfree library has been accepted and will be

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-17 Thread Iain Duncan
Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like myself between yours and the one in Jack? Congrats btw, that's awesome that your work will be in boost! iain On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Tim Blechmann t...@klingt.org wrote: part I need library help with is likely

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Blechmann
Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like myself between yours and the one in Jack? Congrats btw, that's awesome that your work will be in boost! the main difference is prbly that the jack ringbuffer is plain c and prbly needs libjack, while boost.lockfree is

Re: [LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-17 Thread Iain Duncan
Great, I'll likely be a user then! Was planning on using boost whenever possible anyway. iain On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Tim Blechmann t...@klingt.org wrote: Thanks Tim, I'll def check it out. What's the difference to a newbie like myself between yours and the one in Jack?

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 11/16/2011 07:15 AM, Louigi Verona wrote: This is why I see any licenses that limit distribution and usage of creative work as undesirable and unfounded. Even things like GPL and CC seem to me like just lesser evil, as it still assumes that the author of the work can be considered an owner of

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 03:13:06 AM Louigi Verona did opine: Hey guys! I'd like to chime in here. No disrespect meant to anyone and to anyone's work, but the phrase along the lines of there are a lot of people around who think it's perfectly ok to make money by using work of others

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey! I agree with most of the things you say. So all I have to do is just make my point a little bit more clear. GPL is necessary in the world of copyright. It is, thus, founded in this sense. The copyright claim in itself - that ideas can be property - is unfounded. The general claim - that

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
Thanks for replying. Allow me to comment on a few things. The concept of property just is artificial in general. All ideas and concepts are artificial in a way, however the concepts of property are based on an inescapable property of things to be scarce. It has very little to do with selfishness

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 11/16/2011 10:57 AM, Louigi Verona wrote: In a capitalistic society, it should be possible to earn money by investing your time and effort in producing things people need/want. People being paid for their time and effort directly may be preferable. There's still a need/use for copyright to

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:15:31AM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: No disrespect meant to anyone and to anyone's work, but the phrase along the lines of there are a lot of people around who think it's perfectly ok to make money by using work of others without paying them seems to be missing the

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey Fons! I agree with the fact that your code took lots of time, effort and knowledge to write. I would however question the obligation of other people to pay you unless before making your work available to them you have made a contract with them, in which case this is just work for hire. If, I

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:28:53PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: I agree with the fact that your code took lots of time, effort and knowledge to write. I would however question the obligation of other people to pay you unless before making your work available to them you have made a contract

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
It is available publicly *under some conditions* which are expressed by the GPL in this case. Correct. Which is only possible because we are bound by copyright law, a meta-contract, if you wish. Go to whatever shop. Everything displayed there is 'available' and was made before any particular

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 16 November 2011, at 10.57.47, Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for replying. Allow me to comment on a few things. The concept of property just is artificial in general. All ideas and concepts are artificial in a way, however the concepts of property are

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Pedro Alves
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 11:16:51, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:40:36PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: The reason for turning something into proprietary is money. Not necessarily. To be more general - the reason to turn something into proprietary is to have

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey David! Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. I think you have raised interesting points. I would begin by asking you a question though. However, if just any business was legally allowed take anyone's intellectual property and make money off of it, paying no royalties or anything,

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:47:05PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: Now, imagine that all of those things can be copied at no cost whatsoever and that they are available everywhere, even outside the shop. Would you agree that in such a case the situation is different and deserves a different line

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
This is true even of many physical goods. No, this is not true with physical goods. I know of no physical good that has same properties as ideas. A comparison to a car is not appropriate. A car is a scarce resource. Even if the cost of making a copy is trivial, someone still needs to make the

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 16 November 2011, at 14.32.23, Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com wrote: Hey David! Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. I think you have raised interesting points. I would begin by asking you a question though. However, if just any business was legally allowed

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:32:58 +0100, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de a écrit : I'm not a fan of capitalism and even less so of long work-days, but it's hard to even think of a better system that takes human nature into account, to not even speak of establishing one. Fpr me, the problem is

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread hermann
Am Mittwoch, den 16.11.2011, 15:47 +0100 schrieb David Olofson: -- I didn't have read the complete thread, in fact, it is to much for me. sorry ;-) But what I read is all about money an Capitalism, . . and I like to comment on it. Well, for me, that didn't have anything to do with GPL. GPL

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
One of the principal problem with capitalism is that the goal is the economy itself. So, in practice, the society doesn't have any goal and our work doesn't have any meaning, at the exception of archiving a goal that is not a goal but a tool. Actually, this is something I can relate to. I don't

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Iain Duncan
The bottom line here, for this paragraph, is that if you don't like the license terms, you are perfectly free to write your own version of the wheel, just do it in a clean room, you cannot have ever seen a copy of that source code. If, OTOH, you are not capable of doing that, and the only way

[LAD] RAUL or other libraries for real this time? ;-)

2011-11-16 Thread Iain Duncan
Still curious about RAUL. As i have no immediate plans beyond learning how to write proper audio app, even if license restrictions prevent from using RAUL in a hypothetical commercial product years down the road, it may well be worth me using for my own personal needs in the meantime. Would love

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Iain Duncan
The bottom line here, for this paragraph, is that if you don't like the license terms, you are perfectly free to write your own version of the wheel, just do it in a clean room, you cannot have ever seen a copy of that source code. If, OTOH, you are not capable of doing that, and the only way

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:40:56 +0300, Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com a écrit : One of the principal problem with capitalism is that the goal is the economy itself. So, in practice, the society doesn't have any goal and our work doesn't have any meaning, at the exception of archiving a

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-16 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey fellas! Since we turned this topic into an IP debate, maybe we should rename the conversation? The original poster had to open another topic dedicated actually to Raul itself, not IP ))) -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/ ___

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread Harry van Haaren
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Tristan Matthews le.business...@gmail.comwrote: FYI, you're well within your rights to earn money from GPL software, see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Although you are right in the technical sense, I don't agree profiting from other peoples work

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:14:21 AM Harry van Haaren did opine: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Tristan Matthews le.business...@gmail.comwrote: FYI, you're well within your rights to earn money from GPL software, see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Although you are

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:20:11AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: The GPL still has teeth. However if this reseller is using the profits to fund improvements and/or bug fixing, AND those patches are being contributed back, then I have no huge moral problems with it. It may resemble a wine

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 04:24:46 PM Fons Adriaensen did opine: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:20:11AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: The GPL still has teeth. However if this reseller is using the profits to fund improvements and/or bug fixing, AND those patches are being contributed back,

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey guys! I'd like to chime in here. No disrespect meant to anyone and to anyone's work, but the phrase along the lines of there are a lot of people around who think it's perfectly ok to make money by using work of others without paying them seems to be missing the point of GPL. The way I see it,

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-15 Thread Tristan Matthews
2011/11/16 Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com: Hey guys! I'd like to chime in here. No disrespect meant to anyone and to anyone's work, but the phrase along the lines of there are a lot of people around who think it's perfectly ok to make money by using work of others without paying them

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Harry van Haaren
I've concidered using it in a couple of my projects, there were two main reasons for me not to use it: 1. Its more than I need, and more than I understand: While it seems a fantastic library, I only needed x-thread communication so it was overkill for the goal at hand. (That said, I long for some

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 22:58 -0800, Iain Duncan wrote: I found it on Dave's site, but other than that, couldn't find find much mention of it. Do many people use it? Would it be wise to dig into RAUL for writing a real time jack app? Dave, any comments on it?

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread David Robillard
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:11 +, Harry van Haaren wrote: I've concidered using it in a couple of my projects, there were two main reasons for me not to use it: 1. Its more than I need, and more than I understand: While it seems a fantastic library, I only needed x-thread communication so

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Iain Duncan
If you want to use it but the license is a problem, I can be convinced to change it to LGPL3+. I simply default to GPL (as IMO everyone should) in the absence of specific arguments why that is not best in a given scenario. It never hurts to ask ;) That said, the library seems a lot more

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Iain Duncan iainduncanli...@gmail.com wrote: HI Dave, I would def be more interested in checking it out if it were LGPL or MIT or somesuch. As I'm sure you know, Csound went LGPL a number of years ago now, and that definitely increased uptake in the long run.

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Iain Duncan
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Iain Duncan iainduncanli...@gmail.com wrote: HI Dave, I would def be more interested in checking it out if it were LGPL or MIT or somesuch. As I'm sure you know, Csound went LGPL

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Harry van Haaren
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, David Robillard d...@drobilla.net wrote: It never hurts to ask ;) Yes I suppose your right. I'll note though, that I'd concider myself hesitant to request an author of GPL software to re-license as LGPL. Its basically asking mind if *I* earn money from *your*

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Iain Duncan
Harry has a good point. If Dave had solicited opinions on it, I wouldn't have dreamed of asking! I'd just assume you chose GPL for your reasons and that they should be respected. =) Iain On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Harry van Haaren harryhaa...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:38

Re: [LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-14 Thread Tristan Matthews
2011/11/14 Harry van Haaren harryhaa...@gmail.com: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, David Robillard d...@drobilla.net wrote: It never hurts to ask ;) Yes I suppose your right. I'll note though, that I'd concider myself hesitant to request an author of GPL software to re-license as LGPL. Its

[LAD] RAUL?

2011-11-13 Thread Iain Duncan
I found it on Dave's site, but other than that, couldn't find find much mention of it. Do many people use it? Would it be wise to dig into RAUL for writing a real time jack app? Dave, any comments on it? http://drobilla.net/software/raul/ thanks iain