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 thi

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 modification

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 w

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 want

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 REC

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 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 PortA

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 > incorp

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 numb

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