Comments for Alex McLean http://yaxu.org Making music with text Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Haskell hack by random notes, links and pixels http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-15480 random notes, links and pixels Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:00:16 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=192#comment-15480 <strong>Programming music in Haskell....</strong> Fucking genius. Live coding rocks (in a very geeky way, of course)....... Programming music in Haskell….

Fucking genius. Live coding rocks (in a very geeky way, of course)…….

]]> Comment on Patterns in Haskell by Beats bauen in Syntax | Mururoar | audiophilosophie http://yaxu.org/patterns-in-haskell/comment-page-1/#comment-15147 Beats bauen in Syntax | Mururoar | audiophilosophie Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:35:00 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=210#comment-15147 [...] Live coded Music haben wir euch schon mal im Artikel über das Trio Slub näher gebracht. In diesem Video zeigt Alex McLean wie er Sound mittels der Programmiersprache Haskell kreiert. Einen tieferen Einblick in seine Arbeitsweise gewährt Alex hier. [...] [...] Live coded Music haben wir euch schon mal im Artikel über das Trio Slub näher gebracht. In diesem Video zeigt Alex McLean wie er Sound mittels der Programmiersprache Haskell kreiert. Einen tieferen Einblick in seine Arbeitsweise gewährt Alex hier. [...]

]]> Comment on Haskell hack by Haskell hack – Alex Mc Lean http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-15074 Haskell hack – Alex Mc Lean Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:41:12 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=192#comment-15074 [...] http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/ [...] [...] http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/ [...]

]]> Comment on The iPhone and toilet paper freedom by Alex http://yaxu.org/the-iphone-and-toilet-paper-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-14046 Alex Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:28:09 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=358#comment-14046 Hi Richard, Yes the core of pd is BSD, but some parts of the library are GPL, which RJDJ have had to replace with their own GPLv3 code (i.e., rjlib), which despite being 'free' they can't accept patches for, otherwise they can't use it on the iphone. The GPL is _kind of_ compatible with iphone development as long as you own the code and so can license it to apple under a different license. That's the firewall I was talking about. Yes the smule case does sound very similar, I didn't know about that, thanks. Interesting that another free software project is being subverted in that way. For that to be legal, the ported chuck would not have accepted any patches back under the GPL it is distributed under... A rather non-free use of a free license. Hi Richard,

Yes the core of pd is BSD, but some parts of the library are GPL, which RJDJ have had to replace with their own GPLv3 code (i.e., rjlib), which despite being ‘free’ they can’t accept patches for, otherwise they can’t use it on the iphone.

The GPL is _kind of_ compatible with iphone development as long as you own the code and so can license it to apple under a different license. That’s the firewall I was talking about.

Yes the smule case does sound very similar, I didn’t know about that, thanks. Interesting that another free software project is being subverted in that way. For that to be legal, the ported chuck would not have accepted any patches back under the GPL it is distributed under… A rather non-free use of a free license.

]]> Comment on The iPhone and toilet paper freedom by RichardL http://yaxu.org/the-iphone-and-toilet-paper-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-14045 RichardL Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:03:46 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=358#comment-14045 First of all, Pure Data on which RjDj is based is licensed under a modified BSD license not GPL. Secondly, it seems GPL would not be compatible with iPhone development since Apple imposes many restrictions on software distribution and ones ability to compile and run software freely. Apple doesn't allow user applications to use their own or 3rd party dynamic libraries on the iPhone so software licensed under LGPL may not be able to use the limited dynamic library loophole to avoid the conditions of the general GPL. It seems LGPL falls back to GPL on the iPhone. Another interesting and related case is that of Smule who sell a number of popular multi-million-dollar selling iPhone apps based on the GPL-licensed library ChucK. These apps, of course, have not been released as GPL open source, nor has the iPhone port of ChucK. They are considered proprietary. One of the founders of the venture-funded Smule is one the authors of ChucK. So Smule must have a special proprietary license for ChucK from the co-author and from Princeton University (where ChucK was originally developed a number of years ago). First of all, Pure Data on which RjDj is based is licensed under a modified BSD license not GPL.

Secondly, it seems GPL would not be compatible with iPhone development since Apple imposes many restrictions on software distribution and ones ability to compile and run software freely.

Apple doesn’t allow user applications to use their own or 3rd party dynamic libraries on the iPhone so software licensed under LGPL may not be able to use the limited dynamic library loophole to avoid the conditions of the general GPL. It seems LGPL falls back to GPL on the iPhone.

Another interesting and related case is that of Smule who sell a number of popular multi-million-dollar selling iPhone apps based on the GPL-licensed library ChucK. These apps, of course, have not been released as GPL open source, nor has the iPhone port of ChucK. They are considered proprietary. One of the founders of the venture-funded Smule is one the authors of ChucK. So Smule must have a special proprietary license for ChucK from the co-author and from Princeton University (where ChucK was originally developed a number of years ago).

]]> Comment on Pure dyne by Robert http://yaxu.org/puredyn/comment-page-1/#comment-14035 Robert Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:52:02 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=395#comment-14035 Interesting. I think it's worth mentioning as well that purchasing the Puredyne USB 4Gb stick only costs £12.75. It looks great too :-) Interesting.

I think it’s worth mentioning as well that purchasing the Puredyne USB 4Gb stick only costs £12.75.

It looks great too :-)

]]> Comment on Acid sketching by Alex http://yaxu.org/acid-sketching/comment-page-1/#comment-13349 Alex Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:08:35 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=347#comment-13349 Thanks Evan.. In theory you should get intricate sequences with lots of warbling 303 glides, although as soon as two blobs a connected with a line they are treated as a single blob. In practice there are bugs and the more blobs there are, the more get missed out of the sequence for some reason... Must return to this sometime soon Thanks Evan.. In theory you should get intricate sequences with lots of warbling 303 glides, although as soon as two blobs a connected with a line they are treated as a single blob. In practice there are bugs and the more blobs there are, the more get missed out of the sequence for some reason…
Must return to this sometime soon

]]> Comment on Acid sketching by pixelpusher http://yaxu.org/acid-sketching/comment-page-1/#comment-13348 pixelpusher Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:03:40 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=347#comment-13348 rad, dude. a nice concept. what happens with really dense drawings? rad, dude. a nice concept. what happens with really dense drawings?

]]> Comment on Acid sketching by dave’s blog of art and programming | Groworld at dorbotlondon http://yaxu.org/acid-sketching/comment-page-1/#comment-12493 dave’s blog of art and programming | Groworld at dorbotlondon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:17:59 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=347#comment-12493 [...] also be good to see what Sarah Angliss has been doing lately with robotics, Alex’s acid sketching and the other good stuff being [...] [...] also be good to see what Sarah Angliss has been doing lately with robotics, Alex’s acid sketching and the other good stuff being [...]

]]> Comment on Metaphors of javadoc by Alex http://yaxu.org/metaphors-of-javadoc/comment-page-1/#comment-12391 Alex Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:12:36 +0000 http://yaxu.org/?p=369#comment-12391 Heh. If Lakoff and Johnson are right, then anthropomorphism is inescapable - our conceptual systems are grounded in our human bodies. Heh. If Lakoff and Johnson are right, then anthropomorphism is inescapable – our conceptual systems are grounded in our human bodies.

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