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

From: Christopher Cherrett <ccherrett@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 27 2011 - 23:09:14 EET

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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 02:07 PM
> 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?
>
Reasonable.

We just have git so less than 10 minutes :)

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Christopher Cherrett
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