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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonymsRE: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonyms
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:38:40 +0100 "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. >_______________________________________________ >http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |