Am 20.09.2013 11:00, schrieb michel dominique:
On jeu. 19/09/13 17:50 , IOhannes m
zmoelnig<zmoelnig(a)iem.at> wrote:
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>On 2013-09-19 05:31, hermann meyer wrote:
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> > >I'm sad to hear that.:-( Please don't let you lead from the things
> > >you didn't like, let you lead from the things you like instead. I
> > >guess then it's necessary to let you know that we use/as well/ a
> > >fork of your work, the zita-convolver library, in the guitarix
> > >project. But we leave your copyright untouched, and the fork will
> > >only come in use, when the user set a explicit compile flag. We
> > >didn't promote it, or force the fork. Ordinary your original code
> > >is in use. We do it to use ffmpeg instead fftw3 FFT, which perform
> > >better on ARM devices.
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>but this sounds like the perfect opportunity to not do a simple fork,
>but to send patches to upstream so fons' aeolus could support both
>fftw3 and ffmpeg FFTs.
>it might be a win-win situation, where not only more than just the
>original aeolus users can profit from fons' work (because you use his
>code) but also more than just your users can profit from your work
>(because you changes are included into upstream aeolus).
I fully agree. As the
main fvwm-crystal developer, I know how hard it can
be to get good users returns. I find it scary if even developers cannot
share with each others.
Oh, we have announced this on the list(s) here some time
ago:
Am 18.07.2013 23:29, schrieb Andreas Degert:
The Guitarix developers proudly present
Guitarix release 0.28.0 "magic chainsaw trick" *)
[ . . .]
List of changes:
[ . . ]
* Optimizations for embedded systems / ARM processors with NEON
* --faust-vectorize-float, --convolver-ffmpeg
[ . . . ]
without a single (list) reply, which imply us a low interest in this
here.