Re: [Audacity-devel] CoolEdit Pro to Audacity

[Arturo \Buanzo\ B. <bu...@bu...>]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

> Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman wrote:
> >>Are there any copyright or other license issues with your code?
> >
> > It's licensed under the GNU General Public License. Is that OK for you? :)
>
> Sure - what I was more worried about is if you borrowed any actual
> code (or any copyrightable ideas) from Audio::CoolEdit, or from
> CoolEdit itself.  If you only used Audio::CoolEdit as a guide and
> reverse engineered the rest by yourself then we should be fine.

No. Absolutely no code was borrowed (maybe some variable's names). Anyway,
I tried to contact Audio::CoolEdit's author twice, but he never ever
replied. His module deals OK with CoolEdit <= 1.1, and I worked
with 1.2a and 2.0 only.

For the sake of information, I reverse-engineered the session files by
creating specially crafted sessions, so I was able to decode BPM, rate,
waves, blocks, etc.

Audio::CoolEdit helped me to stay calm: I was going the right way about
the process, but most of that code was incomaptible with current session
formats. (You can check the first output I sent using that module, when
you told me "all the information seems to be there").

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