In a blog and in various forums, I read some not pleasing disinformation about Ecomorph. Elive released a particular version fo their distro, called Elive Compiz. Why not Elive Ecomorph, I don’t know, but I guess it’s because Compiz is way more known than Ecomorph itself. Since they released this particular version of Elive, many users deduced that the Elive team was the author of Ecomorph, and that’s pretty bad to see.
What’s even worst is that in a blog I even read the name of an Elive developer who was nominated as the author of Ecomorph!!
ELive has nothing to do with Ecomorph, they did nothing about it. Ecomorph is a software by Hannes Janetzek and yes, it is an hack of Compiz, able of running compiz on Enlightenment. No user or developer from Elive took part in the development process. DaveMDS has made most of the config dialogs for E17.
Both Hannes and Dave are in the OpenGEU Team. Nothing related with Elive at all. While Ecomorph was still in development, the ELive team used the code to create Elive Compiz (and tha’s all OK, echo and compiz are opensource of course, so anyone can implement ecomorph in his distro), the OpenGEU Team, instead, waited for a release of the distro to be sure that Ecomorph had reached an appropriate development level and stability (and testing period) to be officially presented to the public, as a technological preview of course, Ecomorph is still in development.
That’s the real story. The fact that Elive included Ecomorph into the distro for first doesn’t mean that Ecomorph belongs to Elive at all! Please correct this information because OpenSOurce doesn’t mean that anyone can claim he is the author of the software, it just means that he can use and redistribute that software.
That said, the name Elive Compiz itself is not so nice IMHO… because Ecomorph is not mentioned in the name. It was very hard for Hannes to develop it. Please give credit to the real authors.
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I’m no expert on such things, but i guess Ecomorph writer licensed it and can so defend his rights if someone is trying to appropiate of his code. Open source is one thing, abusing is another, very different one. BTW, congrats for the work you’re doing with E17 and Ubuntu. I truly believe it’s the way to go, at least for -buntu distros and in general to make people know E17.
In fact, I wrote this post because even if Ecomorph is opensource software, this doesn’t mean it’s ok for anyone to say he created it. In a blog I read, a developer from Elive was mentioned as the real author of ecomorph. This is not good. And since Hannes is part of the OpenGEU team, I talked with him and decided to shed some light on the project. On the new website Artpulse is creating, we’ll include a page about Ecomorph because of these problems we had, to make it clear where Ecomorph comes from. And I also designed the new Ecomorph logo for Hannes.