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Bitwig ships aubio, and shouldn't
On March 27th, the first public release of Bitwig, a digital audio workstation often compared to Ableton Live, was announced. Bitwig had made a bit of noise for the past few years as a promising software for music composers and producers.
That same day, a good friend of mine gave me the news that vamp-aubio.so, a
binary version of the Vamp plugin for
aubio, was included in the first
public demo of Bitwig, along with an old binary version of the entire aubio
library.
It seems they decided to use aubio's onset detection to automatically slice their samples. Now, in the default configuration, aubio is not used. But Bitwig is a commercial software, and should not include GPL code in any sort of way.
After being asked, Bitwig publicly confirmed that they were not using [aubio] anymore, and just forgot to remove the file. I also wrote to them asking them to do so and received a mail from their side confirming they would do remove it as soon as possible.
Version 1.1 was released a few days ago, and still ships aubio's binary.
From version 1.0.2 to version 1.1, all of them contained aubio's binary
code. How could someone possibly forget to run rm -f in no less than eight
months and several releases?
Tue, 18 Nov 2014, 22:27. trackback - view/add comments
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Very sorry about this. Somehow the request got lost and not entered into our issue tracker but I will make sure it is removed in the release coming in the next few days.
Posted by nicholas allen at Sat Nov 29 21:26:53 2014
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