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

On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:43:40 pm Chris Cannam did opine: > 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 +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.