Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-08 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 16:00:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 15:05:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: True companies have convinced themselves that only licences that allow stealing of others' intellectual work are acceptable to business, but then that is the point,

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:28:00 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Although you are right, the label lgpl makes my job harder. From a risk management perspective I understand if a team architect decides for any other language just to be 100% on the safe side. This is the point I want to stress.

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:39:34 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:14:28 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [snip] All what you say is completely true. Still, the license makes it a very hard job to advertise the D Programming Language at the place I work. It is already hard, and

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:14:28 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [snip] All what you say is completely true. Still, the license makes it a very hard job to advertise the D Programming Language at the place I work. It is already hard, and I do not want also get into discussions with IP

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 20:36:41 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Also from me congratulations! GtkD (GTK) are a great piece of software and your tutorials are fantastic to get into it. Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 20:44:32 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 19:51:52 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [snip] Now it gets more complicated, GtkD has some additions to the lgpl rules. I cannot judge how high the risk is for companies to use this component, but as an employee

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread sarn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 19:51:52 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:16:37 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote: I'm not sure why LGPL is an issue. Does GtkD not allow dynamic linking? I am not an expert at all in the topic of licensing. This is my understanding: Gtk has the

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/7/20 3:44 PM, jmh530 wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 19:51:52 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [snip] Now it gets more complicated, GtkD has some additions to the lgpl rules. I cannot judge how high the risk is for companies to use this component, but as an employee I do anything to avoid any

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Les De Ridder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 19:51:52 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:16:37 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [...] Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. The license is really dangerous

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 19:51:52 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [snip] Now it gets more complicated, GtkD has some additions to the lgpl rules. I cannot judge how high the risk is for companies to use this component, but as an employee I do anything to avoid any risk for the company I work

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Also from me congratulations! GtkD (GTK) are a great piece of software and your tutorials are fantastic to get into it. Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. The license is really dangerous for companies

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:16:37 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [...] Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. The license is really dangerous for companies (you compile lGpl source code into your

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Les De Ridder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: [...] Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. The license is really dangerous for companies (you compile lGpl source code into your application), therefore it is a complete no go from the IP department. The

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 15:05:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: True companies have convinced themselves that only licences that allow stealing of others' intellectual work are acceptable to business, but then that is the point, they can steal the intellectual work with impugnity. A rant of

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 13:21:00 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 10:33:36 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: These are exactly the things that were a little bit missing in the D world. Usage of it and advertisement of its usage. Indeed. If anyone has more ideas on how

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 10:33:36 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: These are exactly the things that were a little bit missing in the D world. Usage of it and advertisement of its usage. Indeed. If anyone has more ideas on how to get the word out for D, GtkD, and GtkDcoding, please jump

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 10:34:16 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 22:23:33 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: Well done! Bastiaan. On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 19:11:48 UTC, M.M. wrote: Congratulations! Thanks, guys. I'm hoping this will help brighten the

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 22:23:33 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: Well done! Bastiaan. On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 19:11:48 UTC, M.M. wrote: Congratulations! Thanks, guys. I'm hoping this will help brighten the spotlight on the D language. TIOBE (https://archive.ph/E3Xu7) has D

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 15:21:30 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently listed as #71. Well done! Bastiaan.

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-04 Thread M.M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 15:21:30 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently listed as #71. Anuj said: "I would like to

FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-04 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently listed as #71. Anuj said: "I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog gtkDcoding has been