Re: [Amforth] Dictionary names obfuscation

2014-02-19 Thread Enoch
Matthias Trute writes: > Hi, > >> SwiftX won't let you modify itself. > > You obey their license terms? > >> I took AmForth and changed it to fit >> my needs (everyone's needs, IMHO) and of-course made the derived code >> publicly available via AmForth-Shadow. > > I appreciate it. That some of y

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Sam Putman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Matthias Trute wrote: > Sam, > > > Matthias has the only opinion which matters, and is on record as strongly > > opposed to this sort of license. > > You seem to ask why? These licenses are like one-way roads. From the > vendor (me and a few other people) to all.

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Matthias Trute
Sam, > Matthias has the only opinion which matters, and is on record as strongly > opposed to this sort of license. You seem to ask why? These licenses are like one-way roads. From the vendor (me and a few other people) to all. The vendor gives away all he has and gets nothing in return. I menti

Re: [Amforth] Dictionary names obfuscation

2014-02-19 Thread Matthias Trute
Hi, > SwiftX won't let you modify itself. You obey their license terms? > I took AmForth and changed it to fit > my needs (everyone's needs, IMHO) and of-course made the derived code > publicly available via AmForth-Shadow. I appreciate it. That some of your ideas didn't go into amforth does n

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Sam Putman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Michael Picco wrote: > Thank you Paulo, for your succinct breakdown of information that > matters. Perhaps this will put an end to the somewhat incessant > yammering that's been going on for the last few days. Such apparent > in-fighting does nothing to advance w

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Picco
Thank you Paulo, for your succinct breakdown of information that matters. Perhaps this will put an end to the somewhat incessant yammering that's been going on for the last few days. Such apparent in-fighting does nothing to advance what is good in AmForth (something I will probably never master,

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Paulo Ferreira
Not reading "Legal mumbo jumbo" and not having a bit of good sense is the kind of thing that can get you into serious troubles. I am a "lurker" here and I have just "played" with AmForth. I also sympathize more with the BSD licenses than with the GPL licenses. BUT: 1) Mathias has c

Re: [Amforth] GPL and AmForth

2014-02-19 Thread Enoch
Erich Waelde writes: > Folks, > > On 02/18/2014 10:08 PM, Enoch wrote: >> Hannu Vuolasaho writes: >> >>> First thing about topic. >>> >>> The language which you rae using is forth. it is obfuscated already to 99% >>> of people. :) >>> >>> Secondly it would be sad to lose Enoch from community w