[Chicken-hackers] FroSCon 2010 - It's been great!

2010-08-25 Thread Christian Kellermann
Dear fellow chicken scheme enthusiasts, I want to give you a short heads up of what happened at our first real life event @ FroSCon near Cologne last weekend. Peter Bex, Mortiz Heidkamp, Ivan Raikov, Felix Winkelmann, Joerg Wittenberger, and myself could find the time to meet up in person. We met

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-25 Thread Magnus Achim Deininger
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:16:58 +0200, John Cowan wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Peter Bex wrote: That's not what I said. I said you can't link a LGPL library to a GPL library. You said you *can* link a GPL library to a LGPL library, which is of course correct (but the other way arou

Re: [Chicken-hackers] FroSCon 2010 - It's been great!

2010-08-25 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:12:52 +0200 Christian Kellermann wrote: > Pictures of this event can be seen at http://www.call-cc.org/froscon-2010/ > once the upload is done. > (As you can see I suck at taking pictures.) See http://www.call-cc.org/pictures/froscon-2010/ (my fault, I told Christian

Re: [Chicken-hackers] FroSCon 2010 - It's been great!

2010-08-25 Thread John Cowan
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Christian Kellermann wrote: > * Christian will ask Eric Kow of the darcs project about their >  experience with the http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ >  Software Freedom Conservancy which they are a member of. I investigated the SFC a while back with a view

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-25 Thread John Cowan
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Magnus Achim Deininger wrote: > Incidentally, this is precisely the major problem with both GPL and LGPL: > defining what actually counts as linking and what does not. That's widely believed but untrue. The important question is not "What is linking?" but "What i

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-25 Thread Magnus Achim Deininger
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:19:42 +0200, John Cowan wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Magnus Achim Deininger wrote: Incidentally, this is precisely the major problem with both GPL and LGPL: defining what actually counts as linking and what does not. That's widely believed but untrue. Th

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Magnus Achim Deininger < mdeinin...@becquerel.org> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:19:42 +0200, John Cowan wrote: > Interesting point... but again, it's hard to draw a line when obfuscated > code turns obfuscated enough to not count as "source" anymore. A similar