On Wednesday 13 October 2010 07:04:03 fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:39:35AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 03:16:08 Robin Gareus wrote: > > > 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... > > AFAIK that is correct. Anyway the AUTHORS, COPYING, INSTALL and README were > added yesterday. > > > 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. 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
