Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Markus Meyer
Ross Bencina schrieb: There are numerous active commercial applications which depend on PortAudio.. it is far from dead and gone. Quite naturally I believe it to be a technically superior solution to RtAudio, primarily because (last time I checked) RtAudio does not attempt to solve many of

Re: EU antitrust is also cool (was: A new practical problem...)

2006-02-19 Thread olive
Alexander Terekhov wrote: On 2/18/06, olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the following links might interest you. Yeah. All complain about the GPL are dismissed one after the other. http://hearsay.com/wp-hdcarchives/cases/wallace_v_fsf-28nov2005.pdf Here the judge rejected a

Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Junichi Uekawa said: However, portaudio looks non-free to me. http://www.portaudio.com/license.html: * Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
Let me say as a long time member of this list and user of Portaudio and its proponent in many projects, there was a period of a year where this project was a big time user of Ambien. It was asleep for the most part. A few folks came along and woke it up. Flex Radio depends heavily on

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Matt Brubeck
Ross Bencina wrote: PortAudio upstream was planning to change the license to clarify this, but I don't think they ever got around to tracking down all the contributors in order to do this. I think there was never any clarity on what the license should be changed to. I am in touch with all of

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread tim hall
On Monday 20 February 2006 00:46, Matt Brubeck was like:   Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is   requested BUT NOT REQUIRED to send the modifications to the original   developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version. Messy. Is the word

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Ross Bencina
Hi Markus First of all, thanks for taking the time to put your concerns in writing -- some of these issues are news to me. I've received a lot of traffic over this issuein the last 24 hours and I'll have get back to you with some more detailed responses to the strategic issues, however I

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Ross Bencina
Hi Matt I would like to see PortAudio use an unmodified X11 license (widely used, and identical to the current PortAudio license except for the non-binding request clause). Rather than appearing in the license's list of conditions, this clause could appear in the documentation, or any other

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Ross Bencina wrote: [someone said] Or, if the request clause is not removed from the license, I would like to see it clarified as follows: Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested BUT NOT REQUIRED to send the modifications to the

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-02-19 Thread Bjorn Roche
Markus: Thanks so much for your comments. I will say more below about our code, but I think you are right to critisize our process. Personally, I'd like to see us using a bug tracking system and a better source code management and patch management system. I don't have enough expereience in