Using the GCC underlying architecture will create licensing
problems unless we reimplement the whole shebang.
Reimplementing the whole thing does not sound like an
inviting proposition, so I do not balme one bit.
In fact, I am very much for putting this kind of development
on hole for right
Is the font New York available on winDoze?
I agree, courier is an excellent choice for the font.
We should use fonts which are standard and readily available on both platforms
- helvetica is not unreadable in bold format at 12 points and up.
I suppose palatino is also unavailable... what
DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we'd have to say that you can use the source for any purpose
OUTSIDE of the partnership -- a fork (of organization, not code).
Eric: That is my understanding, but if I am wrong please correct me - that we
do not envision restricting use or sale of
Uli: Mark, everything has its time and place, and at
this time, this list is the place for licence
discussions.
Alain: Yup!
Uli: I think having an FAQ is a great idea.
Alain: Indeed!
Uli: I don't have much time at hand to do something
like this ... I can hardly keep working on my stuff
and
Eric: harrumph...legally speaking...there are no such
things as empty words harumph
Alain: It just seems that way to us non-lawyer types!
Eric: (:-]
Alain: What does this smiley mean?
Eric: Uli, this is in need of optimization. If 20
partners want more than 20 partners, they can have
more --
DeRobertis: I think we'd have to say that you can use
the source for any purpose OUTSIDE of the partnership
-- a fork (of organization, not code).
Eric: That is my understanding, but if I am wrong
please correct me - that we do not envision
restricting use or sale of source code by third
Alain: We cannot collectively do anything
commercial,
but partners can form commercial ventures on their
own. That's is what you are suggesting, right?
Eric: Yes
Alain: Will these commercial ventures contribute
anything to the coffers of the group so that we can
become self-financing?
Eric: Er, the partnership envisioned would be between
the persons who are working on this project.
Alain: Who are we? How many are we? Its early still.
Eric: Not with metaCard. With metaCard we would
(probably) enter, as a partnership into a contract.
Alain: Yes, I agree that MetaCard comes
Michael Fair: Using the GCC underlying architecture
will create licensing problems unless we reimplement
the whole shebang.
Alain: We must avoid licencing problems. What are they
in this case?
Michael Fair: Reimplementing the whole thing does not
sound like an inviting proposition, so I do not
Alain: We may want to put restrictions on the uses of
OpenKard and its derivatives, though. For example, do
we allow a company to make just enough modifications
to our source code (e.g. a fork) and scoop our entire
effort, and make a bundle with it?
Uli: I do not want someone to rip us off by
Alain: 1. If a clear winner does not emerge from
this
first voting round, then I suggest that we eliminate
the alternatives that are the least chosen. Several
rounds later we will have the only the cream of the
crop leftover.
Uli: So far it doesn't look as if this were happening.
Alain:
At 3:37 AM -0700 on 11/10/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
harrumph...legally speaking...there are no such things as empty words harumph
(:-]
Uli, this is in need of optimization. Consider: If 20 partners want more
than 20 partners, they can have more -- they have unamity, they can change
the
At 3:14 AM -0700 on 11/10/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not with metaCard. With metaCard we would (probably)
enter, as a partnership into a contract. In exactly the same way, our end-user
license would be between 'us' (a partnership to be formed) and the end-user.
Would it be possible to write in
It is imprecise. Try to adjust a vectorial drawing by one pixel. Try. And
watch me laugh ... and scream...
Eric,
this depends wholly on the implementation. Claris' products are very
inaccurate because they do constant conversion between units, which causes
things to move around from time to
Alain,
you mis-attributed the following comments made by Eric to me.
Uli: Really, once you open up business purposes you
open up potential liability for contracts entered into
by your partners. True, partners owe each other a
fiduciary duty ... sorta like marriage, you have to
watch out for
1. If a clear winner does not emerge from this first
voting round, then I suggest that we eliminate the
alternatives that are the least chosen. Several rounds
later we will have the only the cream of the crop
leftover.
So far it doesn't look as if this were happening.
2. Some of the names in
Alain: It would be really cool if we adopted PNG as
our graphics format. It's new, light-weight,
Web-savvy, buzzword-compliant, standards-based (W3C),
widely-supported ... It is essentially vector-based
graphics with bitmap-like rendering.
Alain,
I wasn't aware that PNG was a vector format.
Alain: Play it safe by ascertaining the type and
format of the graphics that will effectively be used
by our programmers.
Alain, Eric,
the format is not a problem as long as it's a loss-less format. E.g. if
you don't use many gradients, you can use GIF, if you have many gradients
and smooth
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