.... I'm a bit mystified. Fons, you explicitly granted other developers the right to do... exactly what they did. And now you're miffed about it? I'm.... missing something. There is not and never was any expectation in free / open source that you, as a developer, are owed anything whatsoever by those who use your code (outside of stipulations of the license). And you, similarly, don't owe them anything either. Perfect symmetry. That's where it starts from. Letting go of the need to control everything, to enforce being the smartest guy in the room. Sometimes a nice little community of mutual cooperation springs up... It happens often, but that's still the exception, not the most common case. Now, if others play dirty, strip off your copyright attribution for example, claim they wrote it not you, that's different. I'll join you on the warpath. Did that happen in this case? (95% or more of the folks who use my code fork it and I never hear about it. That has always been true. I didn't even know Spotify was using Vorbis until somone spotted the symbols. The freaking iPhone ships a fork of Speex, again, found by dumping a Siri stream. AoTuV. A hundred other examples that I'm perfectly fine with...) If you want a community, you have to build it. No one owes it to you, no one will do it for you. Writing the code is the easiest part of building an ecosystem. Ecosystem dynamics are hard. Closing the source will probably make it harder. Monty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
