Hi martin,
If you could help me understand our limitations ill make some more
specific mockups for you
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2706976226_d9d7e58f17_o.png
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2706174405_6f7cb0e3a7_o.png
No points for being original here, I was thinking ofwhat osx
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:39 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
The Marketing team has been discussing how we can organize our future
Fedora messaging around the 4 Foundations theme (freedom, friends,
features, first). I think people here already know these terms from
Hi all,
the last announcement was maybe a little bit too short-term, so let us
give it another try! The next Education SIG's meeting would take place on:
Friday, August 1 at 1800 UTC on #fedora-meeting
If you're planning to participate or are just interested and going to be
around then,
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Summary: Review Request: tex-fontools - Tools for handling fonts with LaTeX and
fontinst
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Author: nim
Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/dejavu-fonts/devel
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Modified Files:
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Index: .cvsignore
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Hello,
I'm interested in packaging the FarsiWeb fonts for Fedora, and I
noticed that the license of the fonts is GPL. Would you consider
adding the font exception as described here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
Basically what this exception allows is for the font or
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when
you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that
it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive
distribution rather than
Hi guys,
Last week Seth implemented email aliases for the people who should be
notified of changes to packages. I used this new functionality to have
getnotifylist, which looks up who to notify on cvs commits, stop
querying the pkgdb directly (a slow operation with multiple points where
it
2008/7/27 Toshio Kuratomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys,
Last week Seth implemented email aliases for the people who should be
notified of changes to packages. I used this new functionality to have
getnotifylist, which looks up who to notify on cvs commits, stop querying
the pkgdb directly (a
Xavier Lamien wrote:
Here's my idea for stages:
1) Request for new package with new branch is added to the packagedb.
+ email is sent to the related mailling list to notify that.
nod Right now only cvsadmins can branch packages so we can send them
mail so they can process the
2008/7/27 Toshio Kuratomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xavier Lamien wrote:
Here's my idea for stages:
1) Request for new package with new branch is added to the packagedb.
+ email is sent to the related mailling list to notify that.
nod Right now only cvsadmins can branch packages so we
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Hi guys,
Last week Seth implemented email aliases for the people who should be notified
of changes to packages. I used this new functionality to have getnotifylist,
which looks up who to notify on cvs commits, stop querying the pkgdb directly
(a
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 20:39 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
Seth implemented email aliases What was the criteria for each alias?
toshio setup a path from the pkgdb to pull the notify list + commit
list, iirc from each pkg and that's what I used to generate the alias
list.
It's all checked into
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Hi guys,
Last week Seth implemented email aliases for the people who should be notified
of changes to packages. I used this new functionality to have getnotifylist,
which looks up who to notify on cvs commits, stop querying the
Hi all,
I have an issue with registering my computer name on my router using
Fedora 9. In fact it only causes a problem when I am using the wireless
NIC. When using the wired network my computer name gets registered on my
router flawlessly. The router I am using is a SMC 2804WBR.
DRDY - Data ready (not really important here)
ERR - Error occurred
UNC - Uncorrectable (eg bad block)
And C8 is a read command (read via DMA)
Alan
So the only solution to this is try to reformat and see what happens?
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On 27/07/08 03:53, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Bob Marcan spake thusly:
(Original subject: clamav 0.93 on Fedora 8)
Will this ever happen ?
For some reason the Fedora 8 packages for ClamAV are lagging behind F9,
so I've provided updates for the following
I used that liveusb-creator-2.7
adios
KSH SHRM
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care...
2008/7/26 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ksh shrm wrote:
I tried to install fedora 9 on my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 1 GB Pen but I got
following errors in error
Hello,
since my kernel upgrade from 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 to
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 my wlan nic stopped working.
The logs say:
Jul 27 02:44:10 laptop NetworkManager: info wlan0: Device is fully-supported
using driver 'iwl4965'.
Jul 27 02:46:49 laptop kernel: iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi
2008/7/27 Bjoern Schiessle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
since my kernel upgrade from 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 to
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 my wlan nic stopped working.
The logs say:
Jul 27 02:44:10 laptop NetworkManager: info wlan0: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'iwl4965'.
Jul 27
Hi.
I'm suspicious that PulseAudio is not starting properly after kernel
updates. For example, if I start Skype, I got the message: problem with
audio playback. Or if I try Applications-Sound Video-PulseAudio
Volume Control, I got the message connection refused. And finally:
[EMAIL
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:13:44 +0200
Huub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DRDY - Data ready (not really important here)
ERR - Error occurred
UNC - Uncorrectable (eg bad block)
And C8 is a read command (read via DMA)
Alan
So the only solution to this is try to reformat and see
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 00:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm not arguing,
No, never... ;-)
but
Okay, I'll let you argue... ;-)
a) you admit you haven't used KDE4 (or did I misunderstand?).
Hadn't... Curiosity did get the better of me. I wasn't impressed.
The new menus were
After latest updates (last day or two), my wireless mouse quit working.
Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo are the devices, as keyboard
works fine, mouse does not. Wired ps2 mouse works fine (currently using
it).
Anyone else noticed?
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ksh shrm wrote:
I used that liveusb-creator-2.7
adios
KSH SHRM
Try running syslinux -s /dev/sdX1 replacing X with the proper
drive letter for you pen drive.
Mikkel
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Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
su, 2008-07-27 kello 11:29 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia kirjoitti:
Hi.
I'm suspicious that PulseAudio is not starting properly after kernel
updates. For example, if I start Skype, I got the message: problem with
audio playback. Or if I try Applications-Sound Video-PulseAudio
Volume Control,
Thank you for the advice, I am now able to set my background to what I
want. Now I need to figure out how to stretch it across both displays
and install that quick launcher.
Thank you again
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Florian Sievert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Yes, I am running the
On Sunday 27 July 2008 03:40, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 26, 2008, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the system without a kernel has *precisely zero* usability.
Yet you provided and cited the counter-example yourself: the boot
loader required to load the kernel, and that
On Jul 27, 2008, inode0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fedora, Ubuntu, and other distributions probably describe their
operating systems as Linux-based in a feeble attempt to not offend
people on either side of this insanity.
Right. So, let's say, there's a dispute as to whether you or I wrote
the
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:09 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
2008/7/11 Rick Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mark Haney wrote:
Glen Grantham wrote:
My system is an AMD 64 Athlon X2 4600+ on a
GIGABYTE S-Series GA-MA74GM-S2H motherboard
with a 320GB EIDE WD Caviar SE 7200RPM Hard Drive
64 bit
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 20:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 00:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm not arguing,
No, never... ;-)
but
Okay, I'll let you argue... ;-)
a) you admit you haven't used KDE4 (or did I misunderstand?).
Hadn't... Curiosity did get the
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Hello,
since my kernel upgrade from 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 to
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 my wlan nic stopped working.
I had the similar problem. It seems the GUI package manager failed to
update the iwl4965-firmware package, but doing a yum update
On Jul 27, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nobody is claiming that they do not deserve credit, but many do not
want the pushing on of their agenda :(
Exactly. And that's why they invent all these excuses. And they even
fail to understand that the principles that led to the
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
First of, here is the smolt profile for the machine:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4e28d6bb-5fee-4152-a260-f08ff80399e5
Check the link there on the Atheros card for info on what I have done
with it so far.
The gist of the matter is that as is if the notebook lid
FC8-i386, Kde, FireFox-3 .
Can't get Send Link in FF3 to open up Thunderbird as Email client.
FF3, Under Edit Preferences Applications the setting for Mailto is
Thunderbird Default.
I also have Gnome-Control-Center installed and default Mail is set to
Thunderbird .
What is not set, that
Hello to all of you!
First; please excuse my bad english, I really do give my best... ;-)
Here's my problem:
I've got an older pc (Asus Cusi-M)
with Celeron(1100MHz),
500MB RAM.
As I tried to boot the installation-dvd (which works with nearly every
other distribution, e.g.ubuntu does and is
Verily I say unto thee, that Erik P. Olsen spake thusly:
On 27/07/08 03:53, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Bob Marcan spake thusly:
(Original subject: clamav 0.93 on Fedora 8)
Will this ever happen ?
For some reason the Fedora 8 packages for ClamAV are
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Nobody is claiming that they do not deserve credit, but many do not
want the pushing on of their agenda :(
Exactly. And that's why they invent all these excuses. And they even
fail to understand that the principles that led to the creation of all
this software is the
M A Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had the similar problem. It seems the GUI package manager failed to update
the iwl4965-firmware package, but doing a yum update fixed it.
thank you! yum update worked for me too.
I'm quite new to Fedora so i wonder how such things can happen? The
kernel
Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
M A Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had the similar problem. It seems the GUI package manager failed to
update the iwl4965-firmware package, but doing a yum update fixed it.
thank you! yum update worked for me too.
I'm quite new to Fedora so i wonder how such
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Sorry Tim, I thought you were one of those complaining about KDE4
compared to KDE3, when in fact you're arguing for Gnome over KDE.
That's fine, but it's a different discussion.
There's a bit of both. I definitely think Gnome is
Hi,
I have winXP installed in my lapop.
When installing it i choose to create a new partition (D:) that i was intending
to use for fedora8.
After installing fedora 8, now i have both operating systems windows uses c:
(20GB) i have D: accessible from windows that i can format to either FAT or
Hi,
I have winXP installed in my lapop.
When installing it i choose to create a new partition (D:) that i was intending
to use for fedora8.
After installing fedora 8, now i have both operating systems windows uses c:
(20GB) i have D: accessible from windows that i can format to either FAT or
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 02:27 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Sorry Tim, I thought you were one of those complaining about KDE4
compared to KDE3, when in fact you're arguing for Gnome over KDE.
That's fine, but it's a different discussion.
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but didn't get it from the list...
Please excuse my english ;-)
Greetz, Chris
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:09:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but didn't get it from the list...
Please excuse my english ;-)
Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess the firmware package hadn't yet reached the mirror you used
when you upgraded the kernel. Later, when you ran yum update, the
firmware package was there, or maybe Yum chose another mirror.
Thank you for the explanation!
But shouldn't the tool
Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2008, 19:26 +0200 schrieb Michael Schwendt:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:09:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a
On Sunday 27 July 2008 14:09:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but didn't get it from the list...
Please excuse my english ;-)
Greetz,
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but didn't get it from the list...
Please excuse my english ;-)
Earlier this week I attempted a 'yum update' on one of my Fedora 9
systems and it failed. I have two Fedora 9 systems behind my
firewall and the firewall machine itself runs an earlier version of
Fedora communicating with the net via DSL.
The yum failure was because I could not download
Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2008, 10:47 -0700 schrieb Craig White:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Björn Persson wrote:
I guess the firmware package hadn't yet reached the mirror you used when you
upgraded the kernel. Later, when you ran yum update, the firmware package was
there, or maybe Yum chose another mirror.
The problem is that the iwl4965 firmware package was
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 07:17:05AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
After latest updates (last day or two), my wireless mouse quit working.
Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo are the devices, as keyboard
works fine, mouse does not. Wired ps2 mouse works fine (currently using
it).
Anyone
On Sunday 27 July 2008 12:24:19 Tim wrote:
The new menus were tedious and slow to use, in even more annoying ways
than the old menus. Who thought that click, wait, menus sliding out of
site to be replaced with a submenu moving into the box, was going to be
a useful thing to do? It's as bad
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 09:03 -0400, TechList wrote:
Hello,
I used to use printconf-tui -Xexport and printconf-tui -Ximport to copy
printer configuration from one machine to another so that for machines on the
same network I only have to set printer by hand once with
system-config-printer.
Ed Greshko wrote:
Oh, goodie Another thread to filter...
at least it is only a '+' click with thunderbird. :o)
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Craig White wrote:
snip
if you go back to my original post - nowhere did I ever make mention of
Firefox, nor did Andy who confirmed the problem.
well, in your own words 'leap to conclusions do we?', seems to include
you in that 'we'. i do not find that i made reference to which post.
Hi, i reinstalled fedora before reading your message. I did it in my way i
removed the two windows partitions in the installation process. Now i have in
the file system some 24GB. I have another problem now. I trying to install gcc
because i didn't choose to do so during the installation
Hi,
I retarted my machine the problem seem fixed.
Thanks
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Adil Drissi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Adil Drissi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fedora 8 and partitioning
To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday,
On Sunday 27 July 2008 03:54:44 pm Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 09:03 -0400, TechList wrote:
Hello,
I used to use printconf-tui -Xexport and printconf-tui -Ximport to copy
printer configuration from one machine to another so that for machines on
the same network I only have
On Sunday 27 July 2008 05:03:32 pm Adil Drissi wrote:
Hi, i reinstalled fedora before reading your message. I did it in my way i
removed the two windows partitions in the installation process. Now i have
in the file system some 24GB. I have another problem now. I trying to
install gcc because
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:51:29 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2008, 10:47 -0700 schrieb Craig White:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get
Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
su, 2008-07-27 kello 11:29 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia kirjoitti:
Yes, same and similar problems. I haven't tried Skype but when I
redirected gtreamer stream to USB headphones instead of the usual
loudspeakers of my Athlon64 desktop, Rhythmbox would play one track for
a
I'm changing the Subject: header because some people who are not
reading the thread seem to have inferred, from the unchanging subject,
that the original huge thread was all about a single topic.
Although this particular topic would probably be a better fit for
fedora-legal, I believe most of its
On Sunday 27 July 2008 14:54, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
They just want you to push on their agenda. What do you get out of it?
Err... I happen to work for the goals I myself believe in. That's
why I co-founded FSFLA, a completely autonomous organization. It just
so happens to pursue the
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
First of, here is the smolt profile for the machine:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4e28d6bb-5fee-4152-a260-f08ff80399e5
Check the link there on the Atheros card for info on what I have done
with it
Dear all,
I have read some good news(I hope), that Atheros will be releasing some new
drivers for Atheros based wireless. I hope that it will be better than the
ath5k which was ported from OpenBSD and then fixed! How soon can we see this
new driver in Fedora?
If I am not mistaken it is
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
In the context of a legal interpretation of a distribution license
(copyright license), work as a whole does not mean each individual
part.
Of course it does, or proprietary parts could be included - or
linkages
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I'm new to this list and I wonder if my mail reaches the list or not.
So do I get my message back by default?
Because I already sent a mail, but didn't
Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Also I'm still investigating the legality of building unrar against GPL
sources. I think this is not a question of whether the author gives his
permission to distribute freeware, but more a question of whether GPL
software can be linked to proprietary software.
Trouble in F8 land too. I have switched kernel but it doesn't work.
The new kernel is 2.6.25.11-60.fc8. I'm
typing this from 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 but still no audio. I have tried
rebuilding pulseaudio but after more than an
hour, I'm giving up. At first, I had to purge pulseaudio - yum erase
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 17:31 -0400, TechList wrote:
On Sunday 27 July 2008 03:54:44 pm Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 09:03 -0400, TechList wrote:
Hello,
I used to use printconf-tui -Xexport and printconf-tui -Ximport to copy
printer configuration from one machine to
I'm changing the Subject: header because some people who
are not
reading the thread seem to have inferred, from the
unchanging subject,
that the original huge thread was all about a single topic.
Although this particular topic would probably be a better
fit for
fedora-legal, I believe
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
For one, I am also a believer in FOSS and all that, am willing to acknowledge
appropriate credit to GNU, as a user I can say it is pretty good software.
Given that, I could even go that far to accept the name GNU/Linux ;-) , but
somehow I still refrain from doing so.
On Thursday 24 July 2008 12:49:30 pm Konstantin Svist wrote:
Christoph Höger wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 16:18 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist:
Hi,
I've noticed a problem with NM recently (might've happened after a
system update, not 100% sure when it started).
When I log into
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy
To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 3:40 PM
On Sunday 27 July 2008 14:54, Alexandre
Antonio Olivares wrote:
When this project was born, RMS should have demanded right then and
there that the project be named GNU/Linux, I have read that he
suggested LiGNUX, but that it sounded awkward
At the time, RMS had no reason to suggest any such thing. When he was
suggesting names for
2008/7/27 M A Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Hello,
since my kernel upgrade from 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 to
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 my wlan nic stopped working.
I had the similar problem. It seems the GUI package manager failed to
update the
Antonio Olivares wrote:
I have gotten more of an insight on this issue and I have to say that
although you have many good points, Les has very good points as well.
I have gotten some input regarding issues with GPL.
...
/* name withheld to protect the identity of this previous GPL author
*/
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
In the context of a legal interpretation of a distribution license
(copyright license), work as a whole does not mean each individual
part.
Of course it does, or proprietary parts could be
Antonio Olivares wrote:
I know I will hear some comments, but these are some of the reasons why many developers try to avoid the GPL. Here's probably the strongest case against it.
The GPL is an universal receiver of software from other licenses but it
does not allow GPL code to move
At the time, RMS had no reason to suggest any such thing.
When he was
suggesting names for Linus' kernel, the difference
between the GNU OS
and the then-unnamed kernel was a common understanding.
People had not
yet begun to incorrectly refer to the GNU OS as Linux.
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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
If the FSF doesn't not believe that the work-as-a-whole clause
actually means the terms must cover the work as a whole,
It does. The terms are permissions, the conditions are requirements
for the exercise of the permissions.
GPL terms are not only permissions, they
On Jul 27, 2008, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Memtest runs under the bios operating system.
Nope. It does rely on probing and some BIOS configuration tables to
find out what it's running on, but that's about it. No operating
system involved.
No program runs without some sort of
On Jul 27, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps no code is shared, but what about the design?
GNU's not Unix. The credit for the design is right there in the name.
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Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Jul 27, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
IOW, the whole is under the terms and conditions of the GPL. The
permissions (1-3, in GPLv2) apply to each and every part as a
consequence of this.
Not _just_ the permissions. The exact terms of the license must
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd prefer that the Linux based distros had shared more of the
BSD-origin work rather than the GPL-encumbered GNU copies.
Obviously. Have you ever wondered why?
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Free
Verily I say unto thee, that Rahul Sundaram spake thusly:
Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Also I'm still investigating the legality of building unrar against
GPL sources. I think this is not a question of whether the author
gives his permission to distribute freeware, but more a question of
On Jul 26, 2008, Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Theo continued to complain about the lack of cooperation between the
Linux driver authors and the original OpenBSD developers. The problem
that he perceived was that the Linux driver developers created a
derived work, and the code that
On Jul 26, 2008, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure, RMS and GNU did begin to create an operating system, but failed to
finish it
before Linus took the unfinished OS and finished it himself. IOW,
Linus completed GNU?
And now they ask for credit? For what? For cloningenhancing
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 13:49 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I have also found a page in which it clearly explains
some problems with
the GPL
snippage
The analogy
collapses once you realize that information can not be
moved, only copied,
and matter can not be copied, only moved.
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:29 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
which is an interesting read as well. Here's a quote taken directly from it
if you add 'large pieces of originality' to the code which are valid
for copyright protection on their own, you may choose to put a
different and separate
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