Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:08:59PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 7/15/05, Brian Dessent wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> > Btw, the "other license" provision in the cygwin licensing web page was >> > really meant as a way to accommodate other, already existing projects. > >So d

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 7/15/05, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Btw, the "other license" provision in the cygwin licensing web page was > > really meant as a way to accommodate other, already existing projects. So do we want to change the wording at all? > Last I checked RHEL and FC were *st

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Btw, the "other license" provision in the cygwin licensing web page was > really meant as a way to accommodate other, already existing projects. And it was very gracious of them to do that. For an example of why this makes life a lot easier, consider MySQL (GPL) and O

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:25:35PM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:08 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >>>I'm concerned about that FAQ entry giving incomplete information >> >>And, I'm always concerned about people who

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Max Kaehn
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:08 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: > >I'm concerned about that FAQ entry giving incomplete information > > And, I'm always concerned about people who can't find any information unless > it is in in the FAQ. Thi

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:30 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>IMO, if we need additional wording about licensing, it should reference >>the web site. > >I'm concerned about that FAQ entry giving incomplete information And, I'm always con

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Max Kaehn
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:30 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > IMO, if we need additional wording about licensing, it should reference > the web site. I'm concerned about that FAQ entry giving incomplete information-- it's very clear about the default case of the GPL, but it doesn't mention the ex

Re: [Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:11:05AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >Because this patch includes details addressing the Cygwin license, >I've included my conversation with Rebecca Ward (rward[at]redhat.com) >verifying the propriety of language of the patch at the end of this >message. As nice as it is for

[Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo

2005-07-15 Thread Max Kaehn
Because this patch includes details addressing the Cygwin license, I've included my conversation with Rebecca Ward (rward[at]redhat.com) verifying the propriety of language of the patch at the end of this message. --- 2005-07-15 Max Kaehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * how-programming.texinfo: Ad