Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 22:53:49 +0200: Joerg Schilling wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 22 May 2006 16:49:50 -0700: What is wrong with this? Commands like make have

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If adding a useful feature breaks some standard, break the standard, standards are not laws that have to be followed unconditionally. Yes, I know you're a troll, but today I'm quite bored so this is your food for the weekend. You've fallen for

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Yes, I know you're a troll, but today I'm quite bored so this is your food for the weekend. You've fallen for him, by the way. I wouldn't say that I have fallen, more like I'm laughing to hard to be able to get up... He has not shown that make breaks any standard. Yes, it behaves

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Drazen Kacar
Karen Hill wrote: Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Care to quote line and verse of POSIX? [...] WRONG! You must follow the standard to a tee if you want to be compliant. Otherwise you are extending, just like Microsoft does. There is nothing wrong with extending, provided that you don't

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 22:53:49 +0200: Joerg Schilling wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 22 May 2006 16:49:50 -0700: What is wrong

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Sorry folks, forgot one thing. http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg Alexander Terekhov wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 22:53:49 +0200: Joerg Schilling wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL

Re: GPL libraries and linking

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] Oh, I don't know. Wallace tried to attack GPL2, but couldn't even manage to get his pistol cocked. Oh, we'll see. http://scofacts.org/Wallace-IBM-61.pdf regards, alexander. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list

Re: New Software License idea: The Freedom License.

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23 May 2006 22:22:09 GMT: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23 May 2006 19:14:34 GMT: GNU make has many bugs that prevent GNU make from being POSIX compliant. OK. Some