Who gets stuck with advocacy?

Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frankly, perhaps what I object to is your self-characterization as > ``public advocate for the hacker tribe'' (from ``Take My Job, > Please!''). Based on your public writings, I don't think that you > advocate my interests or beliefs. Therefore I do not wa

Re: Oversimplifications in HtN -- Philosophy and biology

Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:51:47 -0400 >From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I will argue that I am (necessarily) simplifying, but not >*over*-simplifying. I offer a precise definition: a model is >oversimplified when it is unab

Re: distribution: how much is enough?

Signal 11 writes: > Quick question - > > I'm going to be releasing a program under GPL soon, > and all the libraries I use are LGPL/GPL. My > question is - how much of the original distribution > do I have to include besides the necessary bits I need > to get my program to compile? Is it safe

Re: LPF email address

Just ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] - he and I are discussing a revival of LPF, but it's not active at the moment. Bruce

Re: Alternate Route Open Source Licenses

Given that FSF likes it, I don't have an objection. Bruce

LPF email address

G'day all. I thought I'd ask the LPF about the copyright API problem, but the email address appears not to work (after a week of retrying). Someone on this list may have an email address which works, since there must be some overlap between the two interest groups. :-) The address that I have i

distribution: how much is enough?

Quick question - I'm going to be releasing a program under GPL soon, and all the libraries I use are LGPL/GPL. My question is - how much of the original distribution do I have to include besides the necessary bits I need to get my program to compile? Is it safe to just grab the files I need, a

Alternate Route Open Source Licenses

This group has been pretty quite on discussions regarding the Alternate Route Open Source Licenses. The most encouraging word I've heard is from Seth David Schoen, "That license is Open Source, but it infringes the FSF's copyright". We've obtained consent from FSF to base our licenses on theirs.

Alternate Route Open Source Licenses

This group has been pretty quite on discussions regarding the Alternate Route Open Source Licenses. The most encouraging word I've heard is from Seth David Schoen, "That license is Open Source, but it infringes the FSF's copyright". We've obtained consent from FSF to use the GNU (L)GPL licenses