[LAU] [LAD] Just an information about the state of affairs - Re: forking (was Re: Aeolus)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 19:32 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:36:45PM +0300, Dan Muresan wrote:
> 
> > M. Gavioli also sent me a private e-mail. He sounded like he was
> > worried about the community going after him (possibly legally I
> > guess). This is not a good outcome, regardless of intentions.
> 
> Indeed not. I'll take care of this. Maurizio Gavioli has nothing
> to fear, at least not from me. Nor do I consider him to be be
> 'simple minded' as was suggested, on the contrary.

He read all mails by himself, nobody commented the mails in the archive
for him or sent him manipulative, incomplete quoted mails. As a result
he removes his fork from github.

There is clear hostility against him, when reading all the mails. Sure,
now it is misinterpretation of the content of all those mails.

You the OP, Fons, didn't contact him, but started with reproaches [1].

Now that the fork is dead, it's unfair to claim there never was
hostility.

Btw. not all mails are hostile against him, but terrifying many mails.

[1]

"Hello all,

It has come to my attention that there are ATM at least two
'forks' of Aeolus. The first by the MuseScore team, the second
by one Maurizio Gavioli.

Neither of them even had the decency to let me know of their
work, and both are taking Aeolus in a direction I do not
approve of. Gavioli has even added his 'copyright' to the
sources of the libraries that Aeolus depends on but which
are not part of its source distribution. Apparently the
intention is to release incompatible versions of those as
well.

If this is typical for the attitude taken by the Linux Audio
community then my motivation to contribute to it will take
a serious blow. 

As announced previously, there will be a fully reworked
release of Aeolus next year (on the occasion of its 10th
birthday). Apart from major improvements to the audio code
it will be completely OSC controlled. None of this will be
compatible with the forks of course, they'll find themselves
instantly obsolete. And I will make sure that this sort of
thing won't happen again, even if that means a more restrictive
license.

Ciao,

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