Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: lawsuit
From: David Gerard Matthews Jr. (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 17:40:02 EEST
Szervusz Mate!
I wouldn't worry to much about the lawsuit. After all, there's so much
GPL'd software out there already which attempts to replace or surpass
the functionality of proprietary software that there's no way the big
names can go after it all. (Is Linus afraid of a lawsuit from Microsoft
or Sun? Are the Gimp people afraid of a suit from Adobe?)
However, if you have been planning a GPL'd ProTools-like app, I would
advise you to join an existing project, such as ardour
(http://ardour.sourceforge.net), GLAME (glame.sourceforge.net), or
ecasound (eca.cx), rather than start your own. Of these three, ardour
is the most ProTools-like in what it attempts to accomplish.
Viszontlatasra!
"Racz, Mate" wrote:
>
> yo!
>
> yesterday i tried ProTools LE, and i liked it very much.
> i'm planning my sequencer-synthesizer-multitracker stuff
> since cca 2 years, but this Broadcast-suit made me unhappy.
>
> if i make a GPLed stuff with the features of ProTools,
> Cubase and Reaktor3, will Digidesign, Steinberg and NI
> sue me for ripping their ideas?
>
> if so, how can i avoid it? just call every feature
> somehow else than the original?
>
> --
> Racz, Mate
> linux + IT professional
> audio software developer
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