Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote: > On Aug 16 11:42-0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > There are potentially many free licenses, many of which you may not be > > allowed to combine in the way you want. Potentially, this means that > > you should not regard the GPL as a f

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Walter
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 12:38, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > > options of my best choice, in this case for example 'libreadline' and > > its best friend 'libhistory'. >

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:48:39PM +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > Hi, > > Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > > > Here I need some light. > > > > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > > options o

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > > > Here I need some light. > > > > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > > options of my best choice, in this case for example 'libreadline' and > > it

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-16 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > Here I need some light. > > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > options of my best choice, in this case for example 'libreadline' and > its best friend 'libhis

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > Where is a copyright break when I install from source using configure > options of my best choice, in this case for example 'libreadline' and > its best friend 'libhistory'. There is no copyright break, unless you distribute those bi

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Thomas Walter
Hello Tim, All, On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:11, Tim Connors wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > > Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, > > about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, > > I think gnup

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Lothar Ketterer
Hi, On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Tim Connors wrote: Sorry, i didn't understand fully. What do you mean by the former? Can't be libreadline, because this doesn't break when tab completing filenames in quotes. Oh? I thought it did. It's been a while, but I thought *something* was b0rken. Perhaps not

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Lothar Ketterer wrote: > Hi, > > > Mind you, there are switches in ./configure that work (and are breaking > > people's copyrights if turned on), and there is rlwrap, but the former > > breaks when you try to tab complete a filename in single quotes (IIRC; as > > filenames nee

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote: > Thank you for mentioning rlwrap, i didn't know this. It works perfect > for me, at least at first glance. So i won't be breaking copyrights There is also ledit, which is similar to rlwrap. I'm mentioning it for completeness, but

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Lothar Ketterer
Hi, Mind you, there are switches in ./configure that work (and are breaking people's copyrights if turned on), and there is rlwrap, but the former breaks when you try to tab complete a filename in single quotes (IIRC; as filenames need to be in gnuplot), and the latter breaks help and other thin

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, > about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, > I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's license. Why? It complies > with the FSF's g

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Russell Shaw wrote: > Authors of a new project should have a clause in their licence that > all additions fall under their ownership, but that it does not > otherwise affect the rights of the additions author to that code > outside of the project. This is a rather complicated

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-13 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:42:15PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's lice

Re: The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:42:15PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, > about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, > I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's license. Why? It compli

The problem with gnuplot

2005-08-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's license. Why? It complies with the FSF's guides, OK, but I think it's annoying to have to patch the sources every t