If you provide a summary (even with your spin on it) please provide full quotes for everything you refer to. In particular provide the context for the "simple-minded" quote. Don't provide context only selectively. On 9/21/13, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My last words to and perhaps reading of the threads about the evil that > someone forked a project from Fons, that was GPL'ed by Fons and nobody > else. > > Nobody showed a violation of the GPL by Maurizio M. Gavioli, just a > mistake he seemingly is willing to correct after I contacted him, > something Fons could have done too. Humans tend to make mistakes. If > Fons makes a mistake it's ok, if somebody else makes a mistake she/he is > bad, should shut up, should stop forking a project, should be fired. > > Fons made a mistake, he chose the GPL, while he disagrees with the GPL. > And now I read to often "please, please Fons, continue writing GPL'ed > software, we will reinterpret the GPL for you". > > Fons is free to stop contributing or to continue contributing by using > another license, but if he chose the GPL, he's the only one to blame and > not Maurizio M. Gavioli. Calling him simple-minded (because he is one of > those Fons was talking about, even while he didn't use Maurizio's name) > is offending netiquette, not forking the project is offending > netiquette. > > "Aeolus is meant to emulate a pipe organ, including the limits of a real > one. It's not meant to be a backend to some sequencer or notation > software, or a general-purpose additive synthesiser." - Fons > > Maurizio M. Gavioli seems to fork it, for usage with notation software. > Any discussion about something that should be wrong with doing this, is > a shame and does harm the GPL. > > Regards, > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
