[ale] OT- Sorta:Lightworks video editor: Another missing piece for Linux

[JD]

"Open source" doesn't mean free to use for non-commercial purposes.  Many commercial software titles with highly restrictive licenses are "open source."

Look at all the "open core" projects that withhold key parts necessary for the software to be useful.  Many of these projects are useful with just the open core parts, which is nice.

We really need a BSD or GPL or apache or MIT style license from these folks. 

I will take a look at those EDL capable editors.  The current solution in use here is nearly 100% automatic. Thanks.

Jason van Gumster <jason at handturkeystudios.com> wrote:

>
>JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
>> Do any Linux video editors  support .EDL, Zoomplayer cutlists,
>VideoRedo
>> cutlist or a plain CSV cutlist?
>> That is the only reason I don't use Linux for my video editing needs.
>
>> Basically, it comes down to commercial removal capabilities.
>
>Cinelerra had/has support for EDL, as does Blender (in a rough kind of
>way). I
>used to be really excited about Lightworks, but they've been dangling
>the open
>source carrot in front of us for nearly two years... and still no code,
>not
>even a hint at the license they'll choose.
>
>Lightworks is an incredibly powerful NLE and I'm happy that they've
>been
>working on a Linux release... but they seem to have a fundamental
>misunderstanding about what it means to be open source. They should
>have just
>said they were working on a free(-ish) release for Linux. Then I'd
>still be
>somewhat excited without the feeling that I've been played yet again by
>a
>company abusing the term open source.
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