[LAD] LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer

[Pieter Palmers]

Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 23:08:05 schrieben Sie:
> And btw, you were the one who just called us not being part of the open source 
> community, just because we contributed to one software that has that license 
> restriction you dont like, ignoring the fact that we contributed to other 
> projects as well. How do you call that? Not "misleading"? However you call 
> it, I call it "unfair".

Christian (and other LS dev's),

It's your work, and you do whatever you want with it. No need to defend 
yourself (yet another time) IMHO.

Personally I have similar reservations regarding the code I write for 
FFADO. If one or the other hardware vendor decides to use it as (part 
of) the software platform for (part of) it's hardware I wouldn't like 
it. There are numerous scenario's in which a hardware system can use 
open source components without being completely open-source, and still 
be in line with the GPL. And if the open-source code makes up a 
significant part of the base functionality of the product, I feel that 
the authors deserve something in return.

When writing things that are 'middleware', these issues are more 
pronounced IMHO. I consider the LS engine to be such a 'middleware' 
application, since all it takes for a vendor to build a product out of 
it is a compiler for their target platform. If they were to use a closed 
operating system, people wouldn't even be able to exercise their GPL 
rights, even if the 'open' source code was shipped along. We could have 
an endless discussion on this, so please let's not do so. In a 100% 
honest world this would be a non-issue, but I'm not that naive.

Keep up the good work, I think you're doing really cool stuff.

Greets,

Pieter