13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
1:32 p.m.
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 07:04:03 fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:39:35AM +0200, Arnold
Krille wrote:
For me, I try to chill when people do what I don't intend with my stuff. So
long as there is clarity. Who knows, someone may come along and to the same
to them in a way that I end up liking even if I did not like the original
branch.
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 03:16:08 Robin
Gareus wrote:
AFAIK that is correct. Anyway the AUTHORS, COPYING, INSTALL and README were
added yesterday.
OTOH in Torben's defence: It's kind of
tricky to do so: There's no
AUTHORS file nor any ChangeLog or README which usually come with FLOSS
projects to simplify that process.
I am not a lawyer but as far as I know the only legally binding place to
list authors of the code is the actual code-file itself. Thats why all
files have a copyright-header stating the authors and the license... Of course it would have been more polite to send
the patches to Fons
first and ask for his input and thereby hope for inclusion in the
official releases.
Which would not happen. I've made it clear enough in the past that
I will not support the current Jack session management system.
Of course Torben has the right to add it, and I more or less expected
this to happen as he wants to promote this system wich is mostly his
brainchild.
For me it's open question if going against the intentions of an author
will in the long term advance or degrade the open source ecosystem.
I don't think it will help to maintain a creative developers community.
But what really upsets me is a release that does not work correctly,
that clearly has not been tested to any real degree,
To me, that should not matter so much if it is marked as alpha or pre-alpha
work.
and worse, makes
it look as if it was the original.
I can see how this would bother you if it points to you. Which is why I
wondered if some built in standard ways might help if adopted.
I don not want to be associated
with any system that promotes such low quality standards.
I put out some real junk when it comes to my lyrics and the early stages of
songs. I try to keep a record of the trail to improvement. I think this may
actually help and give encouragement to some. Not all works fall from the
tree fully formed, beautiful, ripe and delicious. That's how I sometimes
work. Still, I would not necessarily like people passing their junk off as my
junk even by oversight.
Ciao,
all the best,
drew