LWN: Comments on "Ardour 1.0: never"

ardour license

ardourphile — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:19:39 +0000

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.

I note...

Baylink — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:25:23 +0000

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

Limited read access?!

nix — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:25:14 +0000

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.