Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: lawsuit

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: lawsuit
From: Tommi Ilmonen (tilmonen_AT_cc.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 11:42:41 EEST


On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote:

> 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!

You could probably also build your app as a Mustajuuri plugin,
depending on what you are after.

Tommi Ilmonen.


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