My apologies! Learn something new every day. I will confer offline about how in the heck you actually *apply* the patch :)
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Luis Villa <[email protected]> writes: >>Note that these pages are generated by Drupal, not static HTML, so the >>patch isn't necessary (or rather, can't be applied). If you have a few >>minutes to incorporate Karl's suggestions, just send plain text of the >>next revision and one of us will put it into the HTML. Thanks! > > Well, actually, a patch done the way Ben did it *is* useful. The FAQ > content on this page is formatted in very clean HTML (using Drupal's > "raw HTML" editing mode), because the FAQ has special maintenance needs > that other pages don't have -- e.g., anchor IDs on the questions. > > However, that also makes the FAQ portion of the page susceptible to > being patched in the way that Ben did (he actually asked me first in > IRC, and I explained the above to him). > > Summary: the FAQ page is special; let's go shopping. > > -Karl > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Richard Fontana [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:13 AM >>> To: Karl Fogel; [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Making the PHP FAQ generic >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote: >>>> Also, it might good to talk about implementations of languages being >>>> open source, rather than the languages themselves. It's a bit >>>> pedantic, but I think it can be worded naturally, and it would >>>> emphasize the conceptual cut one has to make to really understand the >>>> answer. If you compile your C program with Borland's C compiler, that >>>> doesn't make your program closed-source; by the same token, if you run >>>> your Python program on the most widely-used implementation of Python, >>>> which is open source, that doesn't make your code open source by default. >>>> >>>> People who ask that question may think they're asking about the >>>> language, but they're really asking about the particular language >>>> implementation. This should be made clear to them in the answer. >>> >>> +1. I encounter a surprising amount of confusion about this point. >>> >>> - Richard >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> License-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> License-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >>_______________________________________________ >>License-discuss mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
