Hi everyone, Development's been somewhat quiet over the last month since the 1.6.0 release, but there's a few important bug fixes in trunk that I'd like to push out to our users. Since trunk might be undergoing some big changes soon (namely the merge of Tom's MIDI branch), I'd like to try to release 1.6.1 sometime next week as a bugfix release (if I have time). There weren't any objections to this idea from the IRC crowd, but let me know if anyone else has any.
Another thing I want to mention is that we need to pay slightly more attention to copyrights in the future. About two weeks ago I received an email from a company who owns the copyright to portions of the Natt skin, which caught us by surprise. It turns out the author of the Natt skin was unfamiliar with copyright law (plagiarizing parts of it), and while we try our best to ensure that the skins we bundle with Mixxx are licensable under the GPL, we need to be more careful about this in the future. To be as explicit as possible, if anyone sends us a patch or artwork that will be distributed with Mixxx, they must be the original copyright holder and/or have the right to let us distribute their code/art under the GPL. The next time we accept a skin, we must make this very clear to the artist. To clean up the Natt mess, I had to quietly rebuild and reupload all of our 1.6.0 packages, and I removed all traces of the skin from the forum, the website, etc. (Read: Not very much fun.) On related note (and contrary to our current policy), I don't think the GPL is appropriate for artwork. The GPL deals with code, and some CC license probably makes way more sense. Is anyone a CC/GPL guru and can advise us on relicensing our artwork? Lastly, I've gotten a few cool ideas for stuff to add to Mixxx over the last month. I'd like to try to clean up vinyl control a tiny bit more (I have some uncommitted code), although I don't have my turntables with me anymore, which is a bit of a problem. Just need to find time to work on this stuff. :) Thanks, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
