Rather than cause (any more) trouble I think I'll drop out of the
specifics, I don't think I can throw any more light on it anyway, and
I too am reassured knowing the people involved a little bit.
2010/1/21 Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com>:
> For now, as far as I know, I can patch ChucK and I could fork it if I'd
> like, I could redistribute that code, with or without a binary attached to
> it, etc. If something would have gone wrong that would be
> Ge's responsibility but fortunately Ge is a responsible man. I do think this
> is a important topic for debate and you were right to bring it up but I
> don't think the sky is falling. For all we know this is a good thing and
> we'll see some of the innovations made in the Smule context opened to the
> FLOSS community.
Sure it's great if innovations reach the FLOSS communities. The
danger is though that Apple's model is taken up by all the other
megaliths and we end up with a whole bunch of GPLd code and no
hardware to run it on. It's the norm with portable music players,
it's happening with phones and it can surely happen on the desktop
too.
alex
Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 17:09:51 GMT