> Hi Mathias, > > >> I tried to contact the >> author of autotalent if i am allowed to do that, as there's a lot of >> code based on that autotalent thing, but i did not get an answer, since >> 3 months now. >> > > Autotalent is released under GNU GPL 2 'or later', so while it's polite > to ask, you don't actually require specific permission to release your > own derivative version under the GPL: > > /* autotalent.c > An auto-tuning LADSPA plugin. > > Free software by Thomas A. Baran. > http://web.mit.edu/tbaran/www/autotalent.html > VERSION 0.1 > May 31, 2009 > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > > (at your option) any later version. > > I'm looking forward to trying your version :-) > > Cheers! > > Daniel
Mathias :) this is the advantage of FLOSS. In the long run there will be something similar to biological evolution. Today proprietary software for minorities often has a better quality, because the evolution for FLOSS still is in the opening stage. In the long run there will be real evolution, money won't matter, while for proprietary software progress always will depend on money and robbery. You aren't a robber if you will make your FLOSS source code public, because it depends on FLOSS source code. This is the idea of FLOSS, it's wanted. Discussions on LMMS devel and LAD were because of people using FLOSS code for their own software, while they released the software without the changed source code and this in combination with commercial interests. Not only straight for money, if a professor does it for his own reputation, it implied an money issue. Even if they unmeant violated the GPL, because of their commercial backrounds a lot of people were pissed. If you ever should unmeant violate the GPL nobody will damn you. Hopefully you don't be afraid of this. And btw. I don't think that you even would unmeant violate the GPL by anything you will do. There very seldom is trouble because of GPL issues on audio lists and I never heard of trouble, because someone like you just used open source code and published changed code to audio lists. To the contrary those coders always were welcome. Post it to the list, if you like to do that! Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
