On 5/19/20 11:56 PM, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
Sure! SFZ is a very simple text based format. Hurdles are not high to start
some new player based on it. The actual challenge is to bring a new player to
a certain point and then still keeping development activity high.
Sure.
The exception on the GPL license for Linuxsampler doesn't help here
probably. I'm sure you've debated this many times, which is not my
intention. But from a practical point of view, I could see how a pure
GPL license could help Linuxsampler here. People are probably more
willing to work on the project instead of starting a new project (sfizz).
libgig, libakai, libsf2, liblscp, QSampler, Gigedit, Fantasia are all pure GPL
or even LGPL. People could contribute directly to those, they could have used
them for other projects, forked them and lead them into other directions
according to their own ideas. But: no activity difference to LS at all.
It's not that pure GPL is a guarantee for contributions, but people do
mention the license of Linuxsampler now and then when discussing SFZ
developments as a reason to look further. It's definitely a issue for some.
The developer of Sfizz did mention the license of Linuxsampler too, but
he also wanted to start from scratch because he didn't feel ready yet to
contribute to a larger project like Linuxsampler. Maybe in future, who
knows. But that would be more likely if Linuxsampler would be full GPL I
think.
Likewise if you look at other Linux audio projects beyond a certain maturity
level: almost no activity anymore nowadays. Most of the time it's like this:
somebody starts a new project, there's activity for some time, and then after
a certain point it stops. Many great LAD projects suffered this death (e.g.
Rezound).
Latest commit 6 days ago ;)
https://github.com/ddurham2/rezound
At least the LAU mailinglist is far more quiet then years ago, (not sure
what I should conclude from this yet). On the other hand, projects like
Ardour, Muse, Non-session-manager, Zynaddsubfx, Radium, Qtractor etc.
are still pretty active in development these days.
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