[e-smith-devinfo] clarification

2003-12-30 Thread Richard Morrell
Last night I made a comment about Clark Connect 2.0, I'd not used or got under the bonnet of 2.1. 2.1 is a benchmark on usability, clarity of coding, installation design and service configuration that SME can aim for. If you've not played with 2.1 I suggest you make time to do so. It's

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
As to the distribution in question, one would need to examine the software in more detail to verify compliance with the GPL. As you can see here: http://youresale.com/products/yes_license_agreement.php they 1) inform their customers that the GPL applies to some included software

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
Charlie Brady wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Richard Morrell wrote: I am guilty of this - wholesale. That's an interesting public admission. Thats why I made it, its not an admission - SW doesn't breach the GPL, what it does do is not clearly make available modifications. What

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
Just a quick comment to point out I was rather roundly trounced and then asked to not discuss this anymore on this dev-list the very last time such a topic came up. I guess it is who makes a comment more than what is being said that matters here. Sigh. Bob Finch Freedom of speech is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
IF you are looking for another product that works well and is VERY similar to the above products you could look into clark-connect. It is rock solid AND comforms to GPL completely. Bob, I like what Clark Connect and their CEO stand for, he's a great guy who I respect a lot, however the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
Hey Ricard; Thanxs for the very polite reply. Well I was referring to 2.1 which has been out for almost a month now. It is a good product and seems very solid to me. YMMV of course. I agree that 2.0 was less than stellar, but the clark staff also was quick to point out that it was an

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Is this alowed?

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Morrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 07:05 pm, you wrote: IF you are looking for another product that works well and is VERY similar to the above products you could look into clark-connect. It is rock solid AND comforms to GPL completely. This sounds like you still do not

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Some thoughts on e-smith's Purpose and Architecture

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Morrell
Dub Dublin wrote: I'm going to take a shot at identifying a few things that we all agree on (or at least that I think we *should* agree on), and one or two that are not so consensual. 1. E-smith is a *server* distribution No X, dev tools, etc. in the default distro, nor should there be. One

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith/sme at sourceforge ?

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Morrell
Peter Schubert wrote: Hi List, why we do not use sourceforge.net for e-smith/SME ? Best Peter Schubert -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Not enough Indians (Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Boss)

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Morrell
Charlie Brady wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree completely. Free software projects don't work that way. On the contrary Charlie. Show me a major GPL project that doesn't have some type of leadership in place. My point was, and is, that such