Re: [Audacity-devel] CoolEdit Pro to Audacity

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

On May 3, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman wrote:
> 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.

Great, that's exactly what I wanted to hear.  Excellent job with the
reverse engineering.

Let us know when you've released the code.  If you could post a small
sample CoolEdit session, that'd be cool, too, so that I could test it
from Linux.  :)

- Dominic


> 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").
>
> --
> Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar - GNU/Linux Documentation
> President, Open Information System Security Group - Argentina
>
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