Ardour 1.0: never

[Posted October 18, 2005 by cook]

The Ardour project, which is producing a multi-track audio editor, has had a pending 1.0 release for a number of months. The project status indicates a slight change in direction: "We have decided to skip version 1.0 and go straight to 2.0 with a basic port to GTK2. Work is already under way, progress is good."

Limited read access?!

Posted Oct 20, 2005 13:25 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The note in their project status about Ardour 3.0:

read-access to development code will be limited to core beta testers and by paid license.

certainly doesn't seem like a good way to build up a development community. Perhaps they want people submitting patches which have to be hacked before application, but it seems very strange to me.

I note...

Posted Oct 31, 2005 15:25 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (1 responses)

that the licence under which it's developers distribute Ardour is *conspicuously* absent from their website. Does anyone know what it is?

ardour license

Posted Nov 3, 2005 21:19 UTC (Thu) by ardourphile (guest, #33598) [Link]

GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991.

This is at least hinted at on the following page: http://ardour.org/money.php.

At the rate it's going, Ardour isn't going to reach version 3.0 anytime soon. But when it does, most people won't *need* access to the current development code. Arguably that point has already been reached with the release of Ardour 0.99.