[LAU] Pre-License change LinuxSampler code

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Esben Stien <b0ef at esben-stien.name> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > The GPL doesn't protect my 'interests' as a tester/contributor
>  > bucause my name isn't listed in the code header.
>
>  This is wrong. If you got contributions to the code base you are also
>  a copyright holder. The law protects you here. This means they cannot
>  change the license of the particular files you contributed to, without
>  your consent or without removing your contributions. This is protected
>  by law.
>

Well, the problem is that as a tester/contributor my contributions to
the project is direct but to the code is indirect. I never wrote a
line of code in LS and don't want anyone to think I did. However I
would strongly suggest that LS wouldn't have made nearly the progress
is did make in the time it did without all the work I did looking for
inconsistencies in how GigaStudio handled a specific gig file vs how
LS did. My contribution was to push them to make a product that
professional users of GSt would consider using. However, I wrote no
code and my name appears nowhere in any file, as is probably
appropriate.
>
>  > I'm not personally sure what the FSF could really do for us on this
>  > subject but I'd be interested in knowing.
>
>  It's not up to the FSF, as long as they don't hold the copyright to
>  the work.
>
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