On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:39 PM, John Lindo wrote:
A question was asked by Ralph about? 4 months ago," is the ELS open source".?
apparently not, as to be safe ELS code files were pulled from this forum.
I as the owner of this group have never had any correspondence from Oleg, to either join us
and or any clams or litigation processes to cease and desist in the use of his base codes.
Who is Oleg, ' where does he live, ?, it?s a mystery similat to who is Banksy ?
Any help in contacting him would benefit us all.
John,
I don't know that much about Oleg, apparently he's from Riga and he speaks Russian. He has a (currently) for discussing his ELS on a Russian-speaking machinist forum chipmaker.ru. Don't blame Google Translate for poor command of Russian, it's actually pretty accurate. The project is indeed called "yet another Arduino-based electronic guitar" (the zip files with the source code are named DigitalFeed_version.zip). A metalworking machine's "guitar" refers to the change gear mechanism, according to a dictionary the term was coined because the gearbox housing was shaped similar to a guitar's body.
I had in fact asked him recently about the open source status of the project, and got some replies. You can read it , use Google Translate. To summarize, the project is indeed open source, you're free to do whatever you want with the source code, as long as you don't try to make any profit from it. Oleg tried to spend some hours reading about the various open source licenses, but found them hard to understand without a lawyer, and it seems to me he wants to be sure of the non-profit aspect, which is AFAIK not prohibited by common open source licenses.
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Oleg: Any modifications for personal use and free distribution, not for sale - I won't have any complaints. As for the license... probably later, for the next version.
The initial object of creating this digitalhobbyist forum was the sharing of ideas on any digital based hobbies, but it seems
to me that there is slowly a wedge being driven between members. This must stop please, lets stay friendly.
I do not want to come down with the heavy hand of moderating posts, lets all work together and enjoy our hobbies.?
I must have missed something as I didn't notice anything besides a friendly discussion?
Take care everyone
--Gene
