[dev] st patches and clipboard issues

2015-01-01 Thread Philip Rushik
Hi everybody, I started using st at work on my work computers. At work we all use linux boxes supplied by the company and we don't get full control over them. I love st, I think it is by far the nicest terminal emulator available, however, I needed scroll back and copy paste support to play nice

Re: [dev] st patches and clipboard issues

2015-01-01 Thread Philip Rushik
You can do some testing with xclip[0] which allows you to manipulate the clipboard and also see requests made to xclip from X to see what's going on. If run with the -quiet flag it will stay in the foreground and notify you of every request it gets. That way you can see if the clipboard

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-26 Thread Philip Rushik
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Sylvain BERTRAND sylw...@legeek.net wrote: I heard about GNU GPL version wars, was only aware of the benign Linus T. one. Let me laught: Do you really think a GNU GPL version war can reasonnably compensate the defect of code closing from MIT/BSD-like

Re: [dev] arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
The GPL inforces that the codebase stays free. No, all free licenses enforce a continually free codebase. If I release under MIT or BSD, that code that I release will always be free and there's nothing anybody else can do about it. GPL tries to control what other people do with code they wrote.

Re: [dev] arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
You have cause and effect written incorrectly. Free software existed first, then licenses were created afterward to protect them. Ok, well then in popularized or spread free software. My point was just that has done good doesn't justify its continued use, and doesn't make it suckless. That's

Re: [dev] arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Kurt Van Dijck dev.k...@vandijck-laurijssen.be wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:21:01AM +0900, Philip Rushik wrote: The GPL inforces that the codebase stays free. No, all free licenses enforce a continually free codebase. If I release under MIT or BSD

Re: [dev] arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Dimitris Papastamos s...@2f30.org wrote: I am confused. The BSD 3-Clause License[0] states the following: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND sylw...@legeek.net wrote: I'm very disappointed: I was the guy who was attacked on his published work on internet (in a rather clumsy and harsh way). It's the internet, people say stuff, don't let it get to you. Nethertheless, when I'm about

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Rushik
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND sylw...@legeek.net wrote: It did not get to me (I'm an internet children, I'm used to trolls). On those later threads, I stayed polite and analytical all the time except, of course, regarding closed source system software manufacturers. Could