Re: sew watt? Re: WG: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread David Johnson
On Sunday June 10 2001 11:29 pm, Charley wrote: > well I'm a relative newcomer to this aspect of the game but as a > documenter, the Artistic License is of great importance. I just would like > to append (not argue) your point that Artistic License is the oldest of > licenses and probably predate

RE: sew watt? Re: WG: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread Charley
well I'm a relative newcomer to this aspect of the game but as a documenter, the Artistic License is of great importance. I just would like to append (not argue) your point that Artistic License is the oldest of licenses and probably predates the abacus! Under what license were the ancient texts

Re: so waht? Re: WG: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread David Johnson
On Sunday June 10 2001 10:21 pm, Angelo Schneider wrote: > Other licenses are more complicated, so if I would like to get rid of > the burdon of some code, but also like it to be available for the public > I publsih it under GPL. That one needs the less infrastructure from my > side Some li

so waht? Re: WG: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread Angelo Schneider
David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > And, while GPL isn't the *only* free software license, some 90% of > free > software projects (based on independent counts by me of SourceForge > aprojects and Debian packages) use the GPL and/or LGPL licenses. > That's > a very large majority. A

Re: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread David Johnson
On Sunday June 10 2001 06:59 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The point is that Microsoft claims there's nowhere to turn. This is > simply false, though the available resources could be better publicized. Part of my frustration over the Mundie fiasco is that the OSS communities handled it so badly

interpreted languages and the LGPL

2001-06-10 Thread Earl H. Merry
Can anyone give me any help on finding information on how the LGPL applies to interpeted languages where there is no 'object' to be linked; and no library files from which to import 'material from a header file that is part of a library' (LGPL Clause 5)? We are using PHP, an interpreted langu

Re: MSFT and GNU questions

2001-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:04:39PM +, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday June 07 2001 10:05 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Among the questions raised was the perennial "where do you turn for > > advice on the GPL". > > One bad thing that happened as a result of this ski