On 2 June 2010 16:18, Adem <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-06-02 16:50, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> On 2 June 2010 15:37, Adem wrote: >> >> >>> -- Will there be some sort of selection commitee? >>> >>> >> I guess the community could do the voting themselves. Anybody willing >> to quickly put together a Free Pascal based CGI voting app? ;-) Or we >> can piggyback on Lazarus's Forum website which I believe has got a >> voting system built-in. >> >> > OK. This is a better idea --community suggesting applications, that is. > > I hope I won't get flamed for suggesting this: But, if taken in moderation, > capitalism (or merchantalism) isn't automatically bad. >
lol, i was at a socialist meeting a few weeks back, and going to another next week. i was surprised to find out i could solve many of their problems with the capitalist approach! i suspect they think the only capitalism is $billion businesses, and theyve forgotten the local shops, pubs, cleaners, self-employed, etc. > > So, I think, we should allow for material rewards of symbolic symbolic > nature (i.e., symbolic bountines) from suggesters --such as a book or some > such thing. > > -- Will there be a restriction of licenses those applications can be >>> submitted under? >>> >>> >> I don't know if GPL is sufficient (it will >> >> limit commercial use of that code), in which case maybe a BSD style >> license should be used. Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> > IANAL, but perhaps MPL could be a better solution. It does not restrict how > the code is used yet keeps the originial developer in the loop (or mention > list). +1 MPL/BSD > > The main point of these competitions should be to educate other >> developers in new features or how to accomplish some task - giving >> them a nice working example to play with. >> >> > Indeed, concise sample/demo code is the best educational tool I have known > of to date. > absolutely agree. i often start out with copy & paste simple demo/example then use online reference to pad out with my specific needs. > > -- > Cheers, > > Adem > > - V
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