[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

[Patrick Shirkey]

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> Call me cynical, and the plugin authors certainly have the last say,
> but there seems to be a rather large dose of hypocrisy going on
> here....
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I think it would be safe to say that if this AJ character decided to 
post here then things would get a little more heated and some anger 
would be dished out.

It's probably a lot less stressful for him to attempt to keep a low 
profile and try to deal with this off list.

In regards to the issue with impro-visor there is probably also a little 
bit of assumed knowledge that he would be able to handle the debate as 
he is from a university environment and obviously knows how to get 
around a Linux system and therefore has probably experienced the 
intensity of discussion that a list like LAD can bring out.

I'm not sure if it's hypocrisy? I think this is a different situation 
being handled by different parties and being tackled defensively whereas 
the impro-visor issue was forced confrontation.


Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd




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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Michael Fisher<mfisher31 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Everybody,
>>
>> Good.  I wasn't really trying to get Beat Kangz in trouble or anything
>> like that.  More than anything I was just disappointed to see that these
>> LADSPA plugins were being distributed with their software with not a
>> single mention of credit to the actual developers.  As a computer
>> programmer myself I understand the work involved in creating code.  The
>> way I found out about this was me running the program from terminal and
>> with the mac Console open to submit some bug reports to them.  That
>> reminds me, I still need to do that.
>>
>> I actually know one of the staff members at beat kangz, so I really am
>> not interested in causing trouble.  Credit due, where credit deserved is
>> all.  And I figured the LADSPA developers should be aware of what was
>> going on.  I suppose it's not really that big of a deal, because say I
>> had those plugins already installed on my system, then the Beat Kangz
>> software would only be searching for and loading them.  My problem was
>> that their installer included them, which would be distribution of GPL'd
>> software.
>>
>> That would be pretty awesome if they decided to open development.
>> Really, it would only make their products much stronger.  If their using
>> LADSPA plugins, I can only assume that development is taking place in a
>> Linux/*nix type environment as they are obviously familiar with Linux
>> Audio stuff.  Wouldn't surprise me if the actual hardware "box" is
>> running an embedded linux of some sort.
>>
>> On the lighter side...  The Virtual Beat Thang is in my opinion pretty
>> nice.  A few bugs here and there (the thing just came out), but really
>> not a bad peace of work.  Great drum sounds.  I have it working with
>> jack-osx which makes it even more powerful.  Might as well just make it
>> natively support jack in my opinion.
>>
>> -Mike
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>> Ronald Stewart wrote:
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>>> GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz today
>>> his name is A.J. and he is a sweetheart and his head is on straight.
>>> He is currently going to work on an official statement and he wants to
>>> embrace and thank the developers and give the authors credit on their
>>> software and materials moving forward.  Additionally, Beat Kangz is
>>> interested in opening up development with authors to make Beat Kangz
>>> even better including funding open source development and projects.
>>>
>>> I think the hiccup is that they didn't know how to properly
>>> thank/engage in regards to GPL and such.  It's sounds like more of a
>>> noob thing and definitely not a jerk thing.  Let's give these guys the
>>> benefit of the doubt because their heads are on stragiht.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned.
>>>
>>> Much Love.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Ronald Stewart
>>> Creative Director
>>> Trinity Audio Group Inc.
>>> 9854 National Blvd. #322
>>> Los Angeles CA 90034
>>> 310-733-9285
>>> ronaldjstewart at gmail.com<mailto:ronaldjstewart at gmail.com>
>>> www.indamixx.com<http://www.indamixx.com>
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