Thanks for that Peter, in fact I had already found this myself whilst
searching for documentation. It isn't actually much help, although it does
fill in one or two gaps in my knowledge.

The thing that strikes me is that Aeolus appeared to be a dead project from
the pretty extensive searches I made when I first became aware of its
existence in the nightlies. This was largely due to Fons not dealing with
out-dated links properly - in fact his link on Linux Audio Developers
members page still points to the defunct kokkinizita.net link which has
probably caused all this trouble (see) http://www.linuxaudio.org/members

I did actually find his own Aeolus page but as at the time the last update
was in 2010, the mailing lists mentioned at the Muse Aeolus page were
completely dead, and there was absolutely no documentation to be found
anywhere apart from the somewhat sketchy information on the Muse page, I
concluded that the project had been abandoned, which is why Maurizio, after
a lot of poking around the net himself decided to experiment with it.

Like you I waded through most of that extremely long thread, and was amazed
that he was still working on it.

The question is did Werner also think the project was dead? All the
available evidence, unless you were a member of the LAD mailing list
suggests that was the case.

I agree that Fons should be contacted. 

Incidentally, the latest version recognised by the Ubuntu Studio PPA is
0.8.4-6 I quote from the Launchpad PPA: "There are no projects registered in
Launchpad that are a potential match for this source package. Can you help
us find one? "

Regards
Michael


Peter Schepers wrote
> Michael, first off, in case you've not seen this paper, I found it during
> a search for something else...
> 
> http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/papers/aeolus-pres.pdf
> 
> Basically, it's a presentation he did in 2004 to the Linux Audio community
> about the design of Aeolus. Might be helpful, probably not anymore.
> 
> Now, I've read most of the very long thread, and I certainly don't know
> what Fons' problem is, except for ego. He claims that '...both [forks] are
> taking Aeolus in a direction I do not approve of' but without clarifying
> what his disapproval is. Miwarre was only experimenting for himself, and I
> don't think the MuseScore team has made any major coding changes except
> for your latest reconfig of the stops, which may or may not be wanted
> upstream.
> 
> I do agree with the first responder that, regardless of strictly abiding
> to the GPL license, we don't want to be seen as renegades and so some
> contact is necessary, along with an explanation of MS' use of Aeolus.





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