On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:43:40 pm Chris Cannam did opine:
> On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher Cherrett <ccherrett@email-addr-hidden>
wrote:
> > I suspect there is much more to this puzzle than attribution.
>
> No, really not. Attribution is incredibly important to many open
> source developers, partly because there are so few tangible benefits
> involved with open source work, and partly because the force of the
> licenses we use (particularly the GPL) depends on being confident
> about the ownership of copyright. It matters a great deal to people
> if you take someone's work and represent it as your own.
>
> And it's a pity, because a situation like this or the earlier
> Rosegarden fork ought to be beneficial to everybody. With Rosegarden,
> your project's focus was different from that of any of our core
> developers and, although we like to keep people happy, we really
> weren't able to spend the time to do the things you wanted. Forking
> ensured that people who liked things "your way" had somewhere else to
> go, which made things better for them and simpler for us.
>
> In light of that, it's a great shame that the resulting new project
> should then give us such a sour impression -- and the same thing is
> true again here. Your casual attitude to other people's work means
> that I and probably many others would avoid working with you again,
> but that negative feeling could have been avoided with such a tiny
> amount of thought and even less work.
>
>
> Chris
+1000
This very well said, Chris. I personally do not have a dog in this fight,
but had that been some of my now elderly code, I think I would be justified
in calling this new effort out, as has now been more than amply done by
others here, and the point _has_ been made. Unfortunately, I am probably
doing little except contributing to the roar of disapproval by the crowd.:(
To Alex and your crew:
It is likely that this contretemps will not fully settle until such time as
the proper attributions have been restored and a new release containing
those attributions has been made.
Defensive attitudes do not cut it, performance does.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard. -- Prof. Steiner _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Fri Jan 28 00:15:12 2011
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