Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread geneb
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:13, Jonas Maebe wrote: The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to do anything with your work without explicit permission from you Correct, and which actu

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
Jonas Maebe writes: > As the saying goes: reality is that which, when you stop believing in > it, doesn't go away... (un)Fortunately. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08/08/15 11:21, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > If you believe in copyright law, yes. I don't believe in that either. As the saying goes: reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away... > PS. And anyway: the whole discussion is moot. The latex files do contain > some k

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-08 10:13, Jonas Maebe wrote: > The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the > default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to do anything > with your work without explicit permission from you Correct, and which actually applies a lot of restriction. I've bee

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is th

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. > > Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to do anything wit

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
Michael Van Canneyt writes: > I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. > > Hence I specify none for the docs. Ehh, I like this one…when considering to write something, it’s cumbersome that one has to think about licenses, law etc… However, it’s nice one is not alone. ;)

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Just curious, what is FPC's documentation license? At moment it seems like it doesn't specify any all - which might not be a good idea. I looked in the fpcdocs repository and in all the generated PDF's. Normally open source projects specify a

[fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Just curious, what is FPC's documentation license? At moment it seems like it doesn't specify any all - which might not be a good idea. I looked in the fpcdocs repository and in all the generated PDF's. Normally open source projects specify a GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 or something l