Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Christian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a funny story to this: Some weeks ago I jammed with a friend, a convinced osx user, at home. My all purpose notebook was running with openoffice firefox and thunderbird and eclipse as I worked with it before, so there was a first strange look

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
David Robillard: Let's just fix the interaction between pulse and jack and be done with it. That is one solution. It's harmful to suggest that it things are less than they are Read the user posts in this thread, or ths post that started it. Things are as they are. Pretending everything

Re: [LAD] Running pulseaudio with jack

2009-08-07 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Patrick Shirkey: Hi, For those of you who are not subscribed to LAU, yesterday I had time to run a test to see how easy and stable it was to run pulseaudio with jack on Fedora 11. I had a few problems at first but after upgrading to pulseaudio-0.9.16 (latest dev version) I was able to

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Chris Cannam wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Raymond Martinlase...@gmail.com wrote: What possible counter-argument can there be left? http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ (same guy you just cited, explaining why

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Chris Cannam wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Raymond Martinlase...@gmail.com wrote: What possible counter-argument can there be left?

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:51:08AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: For emphasis, I just want to paste that sentence (and the following one) again for Raymond, with attribution: Eben Moglen, attorney for the FSF: The claim that a GPL violation could lead to the forcing open of proprietary code that

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Robin Gareus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Robin Gareus wrote: Hi Rui et al, I just found that recent kernel development (merging IRQ threads into mainline) breaks the rtirq setup script. Basically rtirq does nothing. [..] It looks like a new set of regexps for

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 08:56:30 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:51:08AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: For emphasis, I just want to paste that sentence (and the following one) again for Raymond, with attribution: Eben Moglen, attorney for the FSF: The claim that a GPL

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: That's nice, but I would like for someone to show me how this pertains to the current line of discussion. The fact is that code does become GPL once you mix it with other GPL code. Hi Raymond :) I searched the web and discussed this also off-list. Today in the early

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-07 Thread jaromil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:45:13PM +0100, Dr Nicholas J Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 09:10:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:22AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote: Well, calling it your own is out of order, but as long as

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Robin Gareus wrote: Rui Nuno Capela wrote: this issue on 2.6.31-rt has been already reported privately and i'll get to it as soon i get back home from vacation. meanwhile, it really looks like a regex trickery is all that's needed, I'm not so sure, Since 2.6.31 it is also possible to

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Simon Jenkins
On 7 Aug 2009, at 12:55, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Chris Cannam wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Raymond Martinlase...@gmail.com wrote: What possible

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
a simple regex oneliner anymore and i'm afraid it might need a deeper retouch... not so deeper, more than a simple regex fix but some bash trickery now added: please, try the attached patch (rtirq-20090807-1.diff) and tell ;) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rn...@rncbc.org --- rtirq-20090626

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:14:23AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 08:56:30 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Which makes perfect sense. In a civilised society even a convicted thief retains all the rights to his legally acquired property. If any of it has to be seized, for

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:14:23AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 08:56:30 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Which makes perfect sense. In a civilised society even a convicted thief retains all the rights to his legally acquired property. If

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:07:31 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:14:23AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 08:56:30 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Which makes perfect sense. In a civilised society even a convicted thief retains all the rights to his legally

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Robin Gareus
intended (eg. snd = irq/17-HDA Inte and nothing else) not just a simple regex oneliner anymore and i'm afraid it might need a deeper retouch... not so deeper, more than a simple regex fix but some bash trickery now added: please, try the attached patch (rtirq-20090807-1.diff) and tell

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There are cases in the US, for instance, where people growing marijuana for their medical conditions have had their homes seized and never returned. No justice there. That's real police stuff. Sometimes western civilization behaves like the Third Reich did, but for FLOSS I never read or

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 09:51:05 you wrote: On 7 Aug 2009, at 12:55, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net For emphasis, I just want to paste that sentence (and the following one)

[LAD] linux audio standards base?

2009-08-07 Thread Sean Corbett
I'm not a developer, just interested in Linux audio development because I use Linux audio software almost daily, and as such I've been lurking on this list for awhile. So this is just a practical suggestion / brainstorming idea, not meant to incur flames (I wish I could heat my studio by the

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 09:51:05 you wrote: On 7 Aug 2009, at 12:55, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net For emphasis, I just want to

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 August 2009, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:44 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: at the risk of starting another zillion-mail thread, Pamela Jones wrote that You won't get shot at dawn for not understanding the GPL .. This needs fixing!!! So you are in favor of

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread David Robillard
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:02 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: Well, in my opinion, everything really is fantastic right now. [...] A person coming directly from win/mac probably wouldn't have succeeded though, since jack needed to be configured and I had to manually install the pulseaudio

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: Regardless of all this: a private person or group can't ever do this. Only law enforcement or the justice system can, and in the case of the first it is temporary (for securtiy or investigation), and if not it needs

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Inte and nothing else) not just a simple regex oneliner anymore and i'm afraid it might need a deeper retouch... not so deeper, more than a simple regex fix but some bash trickery now added: please, try the attached patch (rtirq-20090807-1.diff) and tell ;) Almost - it fails because HDA

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 12:40:44 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: Regardless of all this: a private person or group can't ever do this. Only law enforcement or the justice system can, and in the case of the first it is temporary

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
2009/8/6 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: I don't know if I can really recommend Linux for pro audio to normal human beings... at least I should say, you need a lot of time, not easy give up on things and a lot of patience... How much do normal human beings need pro audio

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Just two observations, only generally related: If you have an OSX system without the installation discs, and you want to install a free C/C++ compiler, the *only* way I have found is with a download of several hundred MB from the official OSX website with *lots* of extra stuff, examples, docs,

Re: [LAD] rtirq script is broken with 2.6.31

2009-08-07 Thread Robin Gareus
(rtirq-20090807-1.diff) and tell ;) Almost - it fails because HDA Inte has a space in it. So ${NAME2} is only HDA instead of HDA Intel. I've added quotation marks around ${NAME2} to the rtirq_exec_num and rtirq_exec_name function calls (line 167 and line 231) and then it works. However

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? According to Apple marketing research, about 10% of perfectly normal human beings plays an instrument - mostly either guitar or keyboard - and would also like to use their

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread drew Roberts
On Friday 07 August 2009 13:10:50 Raymond Martin wrote: Show me where I have done something wrong. I am not seizing anything by taking what is freely given. Make sense. I showed in another post that there is nothing wrong with decompilation under GPL I don't see you as having done something

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Keller
On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:07 PM, drew Roberts wrote: Naturally, forking a GPL project is OK. Forking a project and calling it something nearly identical (removing a dash) cannot help but generate confusion and is an example of hostile fork. Here are some guidelines for forking, which seem

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Chris Cannam
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Robert Kellerkel...@cs.hmc.edu wrote: Don't bother to reply. I leave this group with a fair amount of bitterness and disappointment in the way one of your members has conducted himself. One of our members? Nobody else on this list had ever heard of him either,

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:46:42PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Robert Kellerkel...@cs.hmc.edu wrote: Don't bother to reply. I leave this group with a fair amount of bitterness and disappointment in the way one of your members has conducted himself. One of

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Raymond Martin
On Friday 07 August 2009 17:31:36 Robert Keller wrote: On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:07 PM, drew Roberts wrote: Naturally, forking a GPL project is OK. Forking a project and calling it something nearly identical (removing a dash) cannot help but generate confusion and is an example of hostile fork.

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Forgot to send to the list. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Vecchione seabla...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Martin lase...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all. There is even evidence in the FSF documentation somewhere exactly about this point and they vehemently

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jens M Andreasenjens.andrea...@comhem.se wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? According to Apple marketing research, about 10% of perfectly normal human beings plays

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thomas Vecchione wrote: Forgot to send to the list. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Vecchione seabla...@gmail.com mailto:seabla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Martin lase...@gmail.com mailto:lase...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all. There

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Once again forgot to hit Reply-All. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: I'm not interested to take sides, I only want to learn about the GPL. Assumed that Miss B. forks a GPL'd project, as far as I understand the GPL, Miss R. is allowed to fork a

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Damn Reply-To-All, yet again. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Thomas Vecchione seabla...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubb...@gmail.comwrote: I guess my thought was that people who want to use audio professionally are less likely to make

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thomas Vecchione wrote: Once again forgot to hit Reply-All. It's weekend :D. You are confusing Copyright and Trademark Law. Copyright law says that yes they can fork the project. Trademark Law however says that Miss B. is allowed to follow up legally to prevent a trademark, which can

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM, James Cameron qu...@us.netrek.org wrote: The installation discs for Mac OS X already contain software licensed under the GNU GPL (e.g. bash), so the additional obligations under the GPL would not have been the reason to exclude a compiler. It seems much more