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

On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher Cherrett<ccherrett(a)openoctave.org>

> 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