[Audacity-devel] CD vs GPL, track->Get()

[Nick L. <nj...@ec...>]

Just a quick interjection here...

Yes, magazine CDs are commercial distribution. In some cases the exact
same magazine is available without a CD for less money, especially
for international sales (the CD would double import costs for some
countries, not to mention added bulk and weight)

So one should advise magazines that they need to choose whether to
include source (uses more space on CD) or include the written offer as
described in the adjacent section of the GPL (potentially wastes
staff time replying to requests if anyone actually calls them)

On a different note...

The change to track->Get() using seconds instead of samples seems to
me to be a very bad change. As far as I can tell this has made code
more complicated throughout Audacity, as well as making the API much
harder to understand, and it doesn't even make any sense -- you can't
actually request "fractions" of a sample.

My guess is that this also saves up a future horror of "off by 0.5"
errors in previews, effect output etc. that have the effect of users
saying "You know, sometimes when I work with Audacity for a while,
weird clicks appear in my audio". Uuuggh.

Nick.