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Subject: RE: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonyms
From: BlueChip (cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net)
Date: 2004-06-09

"Othelo is another matter, I wouldn't include it with RockBox."

I gotta ask ...why?

"Audio_3587 code is unlikely to raise copyright isuues, because (I assume)
it is based on publicly available information"

You assumption is correct.

"It can remain available as a plugin on the "author's" website."

The dilemma with "author's site" plugins is that (and Audio_3587 is a perfect
example of this) if the plugin requires access to resources which are not
available in the standard plugin interface, you have two choices.

Dump it in source-forge and risk that it will never see the light of day again.
Or maintain a seperate build.

I Played with MP3Cut the other day - MY GOD, IT IS AWSOME.
How that ever got missed is anybodies guess.
But it did, so again the author was forced to maintain a seperate build.

I bet the guy who wrote the sort-by-filetype mod runs a special build?

One guy has a full blown GUI (picture-driven interface) ..I bet he also runs
his own special build.

In fact I would not be surprised if there was a branch for every name that has
submitted to the source-forge archive!

Understand that an open-source project is only as open to new ideas as the
person who controls it. But whoever is in power will eventually refuse a
patch that SOMEone wants. I think something closer to a democracy and further
from an autocracy might be the logical solution. But you can't vote out a
dictatorship!

There is a solution to this puzzle, it's finding someone who is smart enough
to work out what it is! I do not believe in "impossible"

BlueChip

>All this legal/privacy stuff is quite interesting, and we could all go on
>and on "discussing" it for ages. I agree with both sides of the coin. But
>ultimately it is zagor's call as he will be the one they go after.
>
>I propose that the Audio_3587 code is unlikely to raise copyright isuues,
>because (I assume) it is based on publicly available information ie. the
>MAS3587 datasheet. Othelo is another matter, I wouldn't include it with
>RockBox. It can remain available as a plugin on the "author's" website.
>
>This way we all get the benefit without zagor taking the risk. I know there
>are principals involved here, and as I said I agree strongly with both
>sides, I'm just looking for a way through the stalemate.
>
>Stu.
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