Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.
From: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 00:19:02 EEST


Hi,
Juan Linietsky hat gesagt: // Juan Linietsky wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:00:22 -0500
> Billy Biggs <vektor_AT_dumbterm.net> wrote:
> > One last thought, I bet his 'kickass app' will still include the
> > 303 emulation and the drum machines, so you need not worry so much
> > about losing all those precious lines of source code.
>
> Fine, as long as he opensources that, i'd love to include them on
> the legasynth package.

As I see it, ReBorn was mostly about the interface and the
compatibility with ReBirth. We didn't see the code yet, but as it used
gsynth stuff and as 303 emulators are quite common (there are 303s for
Csound, there is vcf303, there is gsynth,...), this part of the ReBorn
code probably isn't _that_ interesting. And the drums were sampled...

It's more important, that David put together all of this into a quite
professional, commercial grade package with excellent dokumentation,
and I don't see, why I should believe that he wouldn't have released
the source in a few days or weeks.

But I, too, would have wished to have the source *with* the binary.

And obviously David's fault - free software wise - has been to be too
quick and to release the binary without acompanying source right
away. Maybe he just should have waited, because, as we see now, this
is a Pandora's box opened.

Personally I wanted to wait just a bit for the source, I have no
problem with that. As I said in an earlier mail, a ReBirth clone
wasn't exactly what I intended to use much anyways.

But now, with the lawyers of "Pro-Boneheads" going after ReBorn we
have a really sad situation. And to mourn, that this would be less
sad, if the source was going through the net already, doesn't help
either.

ciao

-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__


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