Re: broken link
So, are you going to replace http://www.expita.com/nomime.html with http://stagecraft.theprices.net/nomime.html? 2009/8/31, Philip Rowlands p...@doc.ic.ac.uk: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: Can anyone suggest a replacement? This is the same content, and references the expita.com URL as the source: http://stagecraft.theprices.net/nomime.html Cheers, Phil
Re: Open-source tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [dropping the mass CC] According to Sander Schins on 9/17/2009 2:14 AM: Dear Sir/Madam, Your approach of blast-mailing a large set of disparate projects is a bit inappropriate. My reply will focus only on GNU Coreutils, which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 because it is Free Software (as opposed to the broader category of open source software). Before we wanted to make that step we would like to contact the authors off the open-source tools with the question if they would agree that we will sell the live-cd to this company. Please go read the Free Software Foundation page about the GPLv3 license, which should cover your questions on what you are and are not allowed to do with Coreutils. Among other things, the GPL does not restrict your freedom to earn money from distributing open source. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney Furthermore, the GPL explicitly states that anyone can use or distribute Free Software without contacting the original authors, as long as they abide be certain terms to preserve those same freedoms for others (this is freedom 2 of the four essential freedom). I'm paraphrasing here; read the actual GPL for the real wording. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html If you have further questions about using GPL software on your CD, contact a lawyer, and/or ask the folks at licens...@gnu.org. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqyI5oACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDjIQCgzlkC5VO35jkdJ8JggpswbgdH S9UAoISXgGnO1NF2uSJRNY9eBxUC9k5I =+okz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
(man|info) pages and --help
c.f.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430953 I have been thinking about this, and discussed it a bit on our (Ubuntu) bugs IRC channel (#ubuntu-bugs). I understand the move to 'info', and the decision to make the man pages a summary, taken off the '--help'. But, to old UNIX users -- those that were taught 'read the man page' -- and mostly to users that use other systems, like AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, etc, the idea of looking at 'info' will not occur. Hell, I myself every so often forget about it. So. Would it be an acceptable idea to add, to the '--help', a warning that this is *not* the full documentation? Say, like: This is an abridged documentation. The full documentation for blahblah is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'blahblah invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. Thank you. ..Carl.. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: (man|info) pages and --help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C de-Avillez wrote: So. Would it be an acceptable idea to add, to the '--help', a warning that this is *not* the full documentation? Say, like: This is an abridged documentation. The full documentation for blahblah is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'blahblah invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. Is there anyone who's unaware that --help doesn't provide complete documentation? I can't think of any program that provides complete document via --help; the closest is software like Subversion, Git or Mercurial, where they provide you access to extensive documentation via svn help command-style inquiries. Indeed, the whole point behind - --help is usually to generate very brief usage information. Though a shorter, one-sentence message directing the user to the full Texinfo documentation could be useful. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqyhyYACgkQ7M8hyUobTrEoSwCdHodPi2KGyRoodcQIPaK62wGw cHEAnj7sNx0iGvaIo+nLU2kgP8SDIX9W =ssgG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
