Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 23:08:05 schrieben Sie: > And btw, you were the one who just called us not being part of the open > source > community, just because we contributed to one software that has that license > restriction you dont like, ignoring the fact that we contributed to other > projects as well. How do you call that? Not "misleading"? However you call > it, I call it "unfair".
Christian (and other LS dev's), It's your work, and you do whatever you want with it. No need to defend yourself (yet another time) IMHO. Personally I have similar reservations regarding the code I write for FFADO. If one or the other hardware vendor decides to use it as (part of) the software platform for (part of) it's hardware I wouldn't like it. There are numerous scenario's in which a hardware system can use open source components without being completely open-source, and still be in line with the GPL. And if the open-source code makes up a significant part of the base functionality of the product, I feel that the authors deserve something in return. When writing things that are 'middleware', these issues are more pronounced IMHO. I consider the LS engine to be such a 'middleware' application, since all it takes for a vendor to build a product out of it is a compiler for their target platform. If they were to use a closed operating system, people wouldn't even be able to exercise their GPL rights, even if the 'open' source code was shipped along. We could have an endless discussion on this, so please let's not do so. In a 100% honest world this would be a non-issue, but I'm not that naive. Keep up the good work, I think you're doing really cool stuff. Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
