Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:14, Micha Feigin wrote: From you are saying you can't use any GPL toolkit to build commercial software. You seem to confuse commercial with proprietary. A company may charge money for GPL derived programs but if they distribute them they must provide access to

Fedora release

2003-11-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
I just noticed that Fedora Core 1 was released today (I think) - see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/. Is this what would-have-been-called Redhat 10 (or Redhat 9.1 or whatever)? It certainly looks that way, except I don't see a big fuss about this release (we always had a couple of

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. What should stand up in court? The right to distribute software against its license terms? You must be drinking. The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a library makes your software a derived work. As I said before, this

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a library makes your software a derived work. As I said before, this case looks clear enough to most people that even infringing companies prefer to release code and not go

RH end-of-life news

2003-11-06 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
Would you like to know when RH published theirs end-of-life policy for RHL? - one year ago: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2149203 Regards, Vitaly *** Information contained in this email message

Re: Fedora release

2003-11-06 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: It certainly looks that way, except I don't see a big fuss about this release (we always had a couple of weeks of rumors before a Redhat release...). There were no rumors, because they announced this date a long time ago... -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. What should stand up in court? The right to distribute software against its license terms? You must be drinking. The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a library makes

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oded Arbel
Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. Merely linking with a library does not make your software derived work of that company! How can that be? Let's take an example. Suppose Wine is distributed under the GPL (It's LGPL, but for the sake of discussion). According to your

RE: RE: VMWare+DGA

2003-11-06 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 02 November 2003 09:05, Shai Bentin wrote: I can't work with vmware in full screen mode. It complains its missing DGA extensions on my XServer. Is this a setup issue on my X? do I have to compile a new XServer with DGA extensions? What is DGA anyway? Any ideas? Direct Graphics

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:46, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Let's take an example. Suppose Wine is distributed under the GPL (It's LGPL, but for the sake of discussion). It is LGPL precisely to prevent the legal problems of linking against GPL code (just like glibc is LGPL'ed for the same

Re: Fedora release

2003-11-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: I just noticed that Fedora Core 1 was released today (I think) - see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/. Is this what would-have-been-called Redhat 10 (or Redhat 9.1 or whatever)? It certainly looks that way, except I don't see a big fuss

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. What should stand up in court? The right to distribute software against its license terms? You must be drinking. The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a library makes

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
As it is clear that I have been misunderstood, I'll try to explain again. Wine is LGPL. As such, it is not covered by this discussion. Let's then take the wine code, and fork it. We'll call the new program Winw, for Winw is not Wine. Winw is licensed under the GPL (as the GPL is LGPL

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:46, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. What should stand up in court? The right to distribute software against its license terms? You must be drinking. The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oded Arbel
I certainly agree with you that in this case, the onus of making the code open does not lie with its developers (who have no knowledge of and have never used WINE), but rather with the user who did use WINE, which is a thorny mess I have no idea how to solve ;-) No, this is absured. The user

Re: Fedora release

2003-11-06 Thread John Rabkin
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:06:44AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: I just noticed that Fedora Core 1 was released today (I think) - see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/. Is this what would-have-been-called Redhat 10 (or Redhat 9.1 or

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oded Arbel wrote: I certainly agree with you that in this case, the onus of making the code open does not lie with its developers (who have no knowledge of and have never used WINE), but rather with the user who did use WINE, which is a thorny mess I have no idea how to solve ;-) No,

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:46, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: Its yet to stand up in court though. What should stand up in court? The right to distribute software against its license terms? You must be drinking. The only thing a court may

Re: ???: Re: ???: http://www.orange.co.il/catalog/ is unviewable in Mozilla {ID:36786727} (fwd)

2003-11-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! This thing has gone a bit out of control than what I wanted. What I wanted was that people will send complaint letters and that all. But apparently the Orange service has some greater issues, as others have testified and noticed. In any case, you can read in:

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:03, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Here is my opinion: any one of this 3sounds cool. I put

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Shachar, I guess you are still a bit wrong about GPL, but of course IANAL. IMHO, it's not the black or white world of it's a derived work or not. Random notes: * LGPL is GPL compatible, but it does not mean you if you are not the author of an LGPLed piece of code, you are allowed to make a

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Shachar, I guess you are still a bit wrong about GPL, but of course IANAL. IMHO, it's not the black or white world of it's a derived work or not. Random notes: * LGPL is GPL compatible, but it does not mean you if you are not the author of an LGPLed piece of code, you

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oded Arbel
Oded Arbel wrote: While taking it a bit to the extreme (and I don't think anybody would try to enforce it) with our hypothetic Winw, the user who tries to run Win32 application might be considered infringing on the Winw GPL license just by using it. I guess this is one of the reasons the real

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oded Arbel wrote: Oded Arbel wrote: While taking it a bit to the extreme (and I don't think anybody would try to enforce it) with our hypothetic Winw, the user who tries to run Win32 application might be considered infringing on the Winw GPL license just by using it. I guess this is one

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course there is ! Using the software implies copying - you copy it into your harddisk and then you copy it into your computer's dynamic memory where it can be run. GPL specifically says, The act of running the Program is not restricted -- Oleg

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Oded Arbel
The fact that you got your hands on a packaged software product does not mean you can use it. Sure it does. That's what the First sale doctrine means. Once I sold you a piece of software, I cannot tell you what to do, and what not to do, with it. if that were the case, then If I copy a

???: Please Modify your Web site to conform to W3C standards not only for Linux but also due to other reasons... {ID:37868535}

2003-11-06 Thread Webmaster
Dear Mr. Zak, Thank you for your e-mail. I was sorry to learn that, you have experienced some difficulties while trying to use our web site, because you are using other browsers than Internet explorer browser. I would like to mention, that as an advanced communication company, we are

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:40, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:03, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote:

Re: GPL (was GUI language for beginners)

2003-11-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:10, Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:14, Micha Feigin wrote: From you are saying you can't use any GPL toolkit to build commercial software. You seem to confuse commercial with proprietary. A company may charge money for GPL derived programs but

GNU/Linux drivers for UPS

2003-11-06 Thread John Rabkin
Hello all, The short version: I want to save myself time and effort by asking on this list if anyone is successfully communicating with the Advice Partner PR600 UPS on Linux. The long version: I have a UPS, its manufactured by Advice and its model is the Partner PR600. Currently it's connected

Re: GNU/Linux drivers for UPS

2003-11-06 Thread Ez-Aton
I have a similar model, I don't remember the exact model number, manufactured by Advice, and using NUT (Network UPS Tools) I am able to work with it on connected to my Linux box, shutting down the computer after predefined time / battery status, automatically. The module I use is called