[linux-audio-dev] Tracktion, JUCE and Linux

[Julian Storer]

Alfons Adriaensen wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Julian Storer wrote:
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>>Alfons: I expect an apology for your comment. I'm very rarely annoyed by 
>>things that people post on forums, but you've misunderstood a passing 
>>comment I made, and extrapolated it to suggest that I'm some kind of thief.
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>>All I meant was that on the couple of occasions when people (friends of 
>>mine, in fact) have *voluntarily* contributed code to my project, I 
>>ended up restructuring it because I didn't like the their coding style. 
>>I don't steal code, and don't expect to be randomly accused of doing so 
>>by people who know nothing about me.
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>Jules,
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>I did not suggest that you were doing anything illegal, and as long as
>what you do is legal, you certainly are not a thief. 
>But I do apologize, since the formulation of my comment did indeed leave
>room for it to be interpreted in the way you do. And, as you write, I do
>not know you and should have given you at least the benefit of doubt.
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ok, apology accepted.

>What I still do find disturbing is that you claim your project to be GPL-ed.
>The dual license scheme effectively allows any user to buy him/herself
>out of his/her obligations under the GPL. The GPL itself does not AFAIK 
>allow for such a buy-out, so as far as I can see it just doesn't apply.
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if you own the copyright to something, you can release it under as many 
licenses as you like..

>>... So if you want to contribute, you'd  need to be happy about me taking
>>over the copyright of any stuff you send me.
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>I don't see the point. If you completely rewrite it - for whatever reason -
>the copyright on the new version is yours anyway. I don't have to be happy
>about it.
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I suppose that's true, but it'd be a bit rude! And if you re-write 
something so completely, there'd not be much point in taking their stuff 
in the first place!