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

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:43:40 pm Chris Cannam did opine:

> On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher Cherrett <ccherrett at openoctave.org> 
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.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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