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

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, January 27, 2011 04:23:53 pm Christopher Cherrett did opine:

> -------- Original Message  --------
> 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 02:07 PM
> 
> > On Thursday, January 27, 2011 04:02:20 pm Christopher Cherrett did 
opine:
> >> -------- Original Message  --------
> >> 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?
> > 
> > The correct attributions, possibly with a sentence or 2 describing how
> > the fork came to be in the README in download able package. What, 10
> > minutes work plus the repacking?
> 
> Reasonable.
> 
> We just have git so less than 10 minutes :)

Chuckle.

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