[LAD] Congratulations Ardour Team!!!

[drew Roberts]

On Sunday 03 January 2010 17:35:04 Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh> wrote:
> > Well, to compare Mixbus and Ubuntu, I would look at these pages:
> >
> > 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/developerzone
> >
> >   which explains to users that they are welcome to participate in
> >   development and provides pointers to specific information;
> >
> > 2. https://launchpad.net/ardour
> >
> >   which contains links to the Ardour home page and Ubuntu source code
> >   packages; and
> >
> > 3. http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/ardour/
> >
> >   which offers both binaries and source code (this is equivalent to
> >   distributing the source code along with the binaries in the GPL 2.)
>
> None of these links will be presented to a user who installs Ardour
> using aptitude, apt-get or any GUI front end for these tools. None of
> them will be presented to a user who runs Ardour on their Ubuntu
> system either. Neither will the GPL license of Ardour be presented to
> the user (that will vanish into their X log file). In short, the user
> will have no clue about the license status unless they have enough
> knowledge of Ubuntu to know that most of its apps are GPL and how to
> check that.

Do you want to consider mentioning the license in the initial Session Control 
screen?

And a bit more info on the License screen from the About screen?

I don't think that would be in any way out of line and would make the info a 
bit more visible.

all the best,

drew