On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:42:59PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Cherrett wrote: > > From: Orcan Ogetbil > >> That said, I believe the original codebase deserved a little more > >> credit than what is there in the bottom corner of the AUTHORS file. > >> Moreover, when they forked off, they _kindly_ asked us to not backport > >> some of the changes they made (mostly appearance related). While I do > >> not have any intention of using their look, I found this a little odd. > >> You are borrowing tens of thousands of lines of code from a project, > >> don't give them credit in your project webpage, and tell them not to > >> use your little contribution in their original codebase. There is > >> something morally wrong here. > > > > As for not using our look, you are free to the style sheet I created for you > > but change the colors was all I was asking. You should communicate these > > things directly to me instead of out here in the lions den :) > > > > Hi Chris, > what's wrong with using the colors? (just curious) it would be a ripoff !!!1111 bah.... deleting ChangeLogs is the sucks. > > > As for more attribution, what would you like. I have no issues with giving > > you props where you need it. So what do you need? > > > > I would make it clear in my fork's webpage [1] that the codebase is > taken from such an original project, give thanks to the developers and > the users of this original project, and obviously give the link to > the original project's webpage. I would give the date of the fork, and > explain what has been modified. maybe add the the date, where muse started. so people can see the ratio of work that had been done. i still find it very sad, that this fork has happened because you just wanted some result, and not make it mergeable. > > Thanks, > Orcan > > [1] well, not really. I would probably not fork in the first place. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- torben Hohn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
