Re: [LAD] [LAU] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release

On Thursday, January 27, 2011 04:02:20 pm Christopher Cherrett did opine:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release
> From: gene heskett <gheskett@email-addr-hidden>
> To: linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden
> Date: 01/27/2011 01:57 PM
>
> > 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.
>
> A new release? What exactly do you expect?

The correct attributions, possibly with a sentence or 2 describing how the
fork came to be in the README in download able package. What, 10 minutes
work plus the repacking?

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Cheers, Gene
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