LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-19 Thread JohnF
Looking for a discussion of the advantages/disadvantages/repercussions/anything else relevant of re-licensing my GPL'ed code www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html under the LGPL instead. I've received several (a handful, not a ton) of requests to do this, and have so far always just replied, "No." I und

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
In the last three years, Moglen and Ravicher together have received over $1,000,000 in compensation from public charitable contributions as S.F.L.C. officers. Good for them! I hope they get more. I know enough about causation to conclude that this will cause pockets to grow fat.

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-19 Thread rjack
Linonut wrote: * rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Hyman Rosen wrote: The proof will be, once the case is over, whether the defendants properly make available the sources of the GPLed software that they are distributing. That most likely will be the case, because quoting from the compl

Re: C++ equivalent to spaghetti code

2008-07-19 Thread Juha Nieminen
terminator wrote: > Q:Is there any alternative?(I mean a true ** modern general purpose > flexible** language with **suitable for mixed-level programming**)? If I'm not mistaken Ada was intended to be one, but it never got widely popular. ___ gnu-misc-

Re: C++ equivalent to spaghetti code

2008-07-19 Thread terminator
On Jul 18, 11:24 pm, Tim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >  Wolfgang Draxinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Well, I know only the comments Linus Torvalds made about the > > implications of using C++ to develop a kernel. And I totally > > agree with him

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-19 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> The proof will be, once the case is over, whether the defendants properly >> make available the sources of the GPLed software that they are distributing. >> That most likely will be the case, because quoting from the complaint: >