4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
11:22 a.m.
On Sunday 03 January 2010 17:35:04 Paul Davis wrote:
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Bob Ham
<rah(a)bash.sh> wrote:
Do you want to consider mentioning the license in the initial Session Control
screen?
And a bit more info on the License screen from the About screen?
I don't think that would be in any way out of line and would make the info a
bit more visible.
all the best,
drew
Well, to compare Mixbus and Ubuntu, I would look
at these pages:
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/developerzone
which explains to users that they are welcome to participate in
development and provides pointers to specific information;
2. https://launchpad.net/ardour
which contains links to the Ardour home page and Ubuntu source code
packages; and
3. http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/ardour/
which offers both binaries and source code (this is equivalent to
distributing the source code along with the binaries in the GPL 2.)
None of these links will be presented to a user who installs Ardour
using aptitude, apt-get or any GUI front end for these tools. None of
them will be presented to a user who runs Ardour on their Ubuntu
system either. Neither will the GPL license of Ardour be presented to
the user (that will vanish into their X log file). In short, the user
will have no clue about the license status unless they have enough
knowledge of Ubuntu to know that most of its apps are GPL and how to
check that.