Is Gary able to be contacted where we could at least ask for a full Sysex/midi implementation? There's no reason that should be protected by copyright correct? Of course, that's still up to him but more worth it than asking for source since it's pretty obvious it's not for him to give. Has anyone asked Yamaha (even though that's very likely a dead end)?
Nate
On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Peter Korsten <peter@...> wrote:
Sean King schreef op 22-10-2013 21:33:
its really silly there is no mac�osx�an1xeditor and it is only for ppc... �it cant�be that hard to port to mac�osx�and its a shame that whoever made the program won't�just fork over the source code.... if the source code could be available somehow, that'd be great.
It might be silly, but there's a good reason for it. Gary Gregson was contracted by Yamaha to write the editor for Windows and MacOS. At the time, there was no OS X, and there certainly weren't any Intel-based Macs (except perhaps in Cupertino).
The rights of the source code reside with Yamaha, so Gary can't publish them. He presumably also can't go and rewrite it for OS X and Intel, apart from the fact that Yamaha wouldn't pay for this port.
So: complain to Yamaha. They're the ones that are sitting on the source code and not doing anything with it.
- Peter