27 Jan
2011
27 Jan
'11
9:57 p.m.
On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:43:40 pm Chris Cannam did opine:
+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.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz>
A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard.
-- Prof. Steiner
On 27 January 2011 19:38, Christopher Cherrett
<ccherrett(a)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