Re: [hackers] [sbase][PATCH 4/5] fold: fix handling of multibyte characters

2020-09-30 Thread Michael Forney
POSIX says we should be counting column positions rather than codepoints, but I think that might be rather difficult to get right and this is probably an improvement already. I know Laslo has studied this area for libgrapheme, so maybe he has suggestions. On 2020-06-20, Richard Ipsum wrote: >

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi Pedro, Thanks for those mentions, I love the qutebrowser project and am warmed to see other examples of GPL projects finding ways to monetise their work. I am wary of going too far off topic, but I think a convincing argument against the use of "permissive" licenses like MIT is that if your

[hackers] sfakeroot (announce?)

2020-09-30 Thread Richard Ipsum
Hi, For a while I've been writing some tests which cover basic POSIX util functionality, these tests have been quite useful in helping me find bugs in sbase and other implementations. Recently though I wrote some tests that would normally have required root privileges, but I didn't really want to

[hackers] Re: [sbase][PATCH 0/5] fold fixes

2020-09-30 Thread Richard Ipsum
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:41:28AM +0100, Richard Ipsum wrote: > Hi, > > Some fixes for fold, I have a test set for these which I can also provide > if it helps. > > Thanks, > Richard > > > Richard Ipsum (5): > fold: fix tabstop column count > fold: fix handling of \b > fold: don't

Re: [hackers] [slstatus] : update vol_perc for OpenBSD

2020-09-30 Thread prx
* Ingo Feinerer le [30-09-2020 15:11:29 +0200]: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:42:07PM +0200, prx wrote: > > Find attached a patch to support (not so new) sndiod OpenBSD. > > FYI: https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/2005/17308.html Nice, thanks a lot ! I totally missed that, and still was using

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Pedro Lucas Porcellis
Hi, Laslo and Hiltjo, > You don't sell CDs with your software anymore (this > worked maybe 20 years ago), but you can make good money with providing > support, which is, I think, the most probable direction. > > I think for businesses a development-model of selling and providing > > the full

Re: [hackers] [slstatus] : update vol_perc for OpenBSD

2020-09-30 Thread Ingo Feinerer
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:42:07PM +0200, prx wrote: > Find attached a patch to support (not so new) sndiod OpenBSD. FYI: https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/2005/17308.html Best regards, Ingo

[hackers] [slstatus] : update vol_perc for OpenBSD

2020-09-30 Thread prx
Hello, Find attached a patch to support (not so new) sndiod OpenBSD. All credits goes to spoon [1] authors, thanks to them! Maybe someone will want to add this by default. [1] : https://git.2f30.org/spoon/ >From f94be3fddf225d890b981841700c6aec885d5af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: prx Date:

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:06:39 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > The last sentence regarding non-financial political interests is not > true/misleading. See also the page "Selling Free Software": > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html interesting link, thanks for sharing.

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:41:03AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:19:43 +0200 > Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > Dear Hiltjo, > > > I actively search for FOSS in my life and think using software which > > is GPL-licensed is fine. > > yeah, opinions differ here of course. I also

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:19:43 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > I actively search for FOSS in my life and think using software which > is GPL-licensed is fine. yeah, opinions differ here of course. I also use a lot of GPL-licensed software, but avoid it in terms of

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:32:52AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:01:41 +0100 > Daniel Littlewood wrote: > > Dear Daniel, > > > Thanks for your reply - I appreciate that this does not have much > > practical importance. Unfortunately the simplest way for me to version > >

Re: [hackers] Licensing status of patches

2020-09-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:01:41 +0100 Daniel Littlewood wrote: Dear Daniel, > Thanks for your reply - I appreciate that this does not have much > practical importance. Unfortunately the simplest way for me to version > my dwm copy is by hosting it on Github, which is in some sense > "publishing"