Hi Bruno FLOSS is actually supposed to mean 'Freeware Look for Open System Services" and is used for 2 things, a) the floss package itself, which is sort of an enabler, containing scripts, header files and a library that is supposed to ease the porting effort and b) all the stuff that has been ported using this infrastructure, currently some 270 different packages (see http://ituglib.connect-community.org/apps/Ituglib/HomePage.jsf, ITUG means International Tandem Users Group, the predecessor of Connect Community, Lib is it's LIBrary)
Bye, Jojo -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Haible [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:47 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Karl Berry; Schmitz, Joachim Subject: Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble Karl Berry wrote: > Ah, OK, thanks for digging that up. As I mentioned OSS came into > existence in the early 1990s. > > Off the subject of these endless pragma issues, but I feel compelled to > point out for the record that rms started GNU in 1983 > (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html). > > Granted GNU is not part of "open source" ... In the context of HP NonStop systems, "OSS" stands for "Open System Services". See any of the manuals that Joachim pointed to: http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02492445/c02492445.pdf http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02128649/c02128649.pdf http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02128680/c02128680.pdf But when someone creates a library called 'libfloss', and it means something different than "Free/Libre Open Source Software", I get the feeling that the confusion (or pun) is intended. Bruno
