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

[Christopher Cherrett]

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Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU]  OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release
From: gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org
Date: 01/27/2011 01:57 PM
> 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.
>
A new release? What exactly do you expect?

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Christopher Cherrett
ccherrett at openoctave.org
http://www.openoctave.org