Re: [Rosegarden-devel] [OT] more on noteedit's demise

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Monday 08 Nov 2004 19:31, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 18:27, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > As for "Is this really GPLed" point, do you remember yourself at
> > Linuxworld Expo 2 years ago, when you reported, how surprised were
> > people, when they were told RG is GPL licensed.
>
> That wasn't me, that was Chris and Rich.

And actually the surprise was that it was cost-free, not even that it 
was GPL.  Most of the stands around the place were selling software 
commercially.  So we've certainly been familiar with that feeling.

As for the bit about no distro including NoteEdit except for SuSE -- 
well, I'm not aware of any distro that includes Rosegarden on its 
standard set of CDs either, except SuSE, and they've always made a much 
bigger fuss about NoteEdit (which even had its own section in the user 
manual). 

These are nice ironies, but as a consequence I do also have some 
sympathy.  And it's certainly true that the LAU list largely ignores 
notation software -- but then you'd expect that, it's an _audio_ list.  
I used to ignore that list for a long time, too, because I felt I was 
working on music software, not audio.


Chris