I have been seeing some disturbing articles lately, and based on
previous relations with OpenOSX.com, they may be getting publicity
that's rightfully ours. Today I recieved a MacWorld magazine. The
macbeat article talked about OpenOSX Office, a CD from OpenOSX with
Abiword, gnumeric, The
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 07:56 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Kyle Moffett wrote:
Additionally, they fail to provide the source code for any of the
packages they distribute, and some, including the ones listed above,
they fail to provide any mention at all.
Wouldn't
Let's back up for just a moment here.
If I sell a CD with GPL'd software, I am only required to provide the source
to my customers. So I can meet the requirement of the GPL by putting the
source on the CD. (Have you seen the CD's in question? I haven't, so maybe
they are doing this.)
I wouldn't mind trying to make it but we would once again be back to
needing a logo:P Sorry trying to look at the bright side :P Thought for
a fink cd we would just need the binary installer since it's web updatable
and since there is no software on the cd execpt the installer ther eis no
need
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Let's back up for just a moment here.
If I sell a CD with GPL'd software, I am only required to provide the
source
to my customers. So I can meet the requirement of the GPL by putting
the
source on the CD. (Have you seen
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 07:45 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I have been seeing some disturbing articles lately, and based on
previous relations with OpenOSX.com, they may be getting publicity
that's rightfully ours. Today I recieved a MacWorld magazine. The
macbeat article talked about
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
The real solution, it seems to me, is a fink CD. We could put the
installer, and the complete binary distribution (including sourcefiles
as
always) on a CD, and we could even throw in the source for all unstable
packages
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:40 PM, Alexander Strange wrote:
All we have to do is make it better than OpenOSX's CD and give a free
copy to MacWorld :)
That I like!
Kyle Moffett
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On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:55 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
The real solution, it seems to me, is a fink CD.
Part of me really likes that idea, and has liked it for a while now.
Part of me thinks it's way more time, effort
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ummm.about the cd-rom issue: debian has apt-cdrom, which will read
files off of the cd, but will get newer ones online automagically. Just
FYI.
randum mumblings
As for a logo, I like using Hexly, and maybe we can have a finch on his
shoulder
David R. Morrison wrote:
If I sell a CD with GPL'd software, I am only required to provide the
source
to my customers. So I can meet the requirement of the GPL by putting
the
source on the CD. (Have you seen the CD's in question? I haven't, so
maybe
they are doing this.)
Exactly. If
or we put a cd iso online and email the link to macworld no cost, execpt
time and bandwidth.
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Not a bad collection for sixty bucks, but then on the other hand you can
get it all for free. But on the gripping hand, they admit this. Sorta:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:54 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
I don't read Macworld, so I wouldn't know, but have they ever done a
feature or even a small article on open source software
There was a backpage column about Darwin.
They also had entire issue devoted to freebies, but that was
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:50 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:
or we put a cd iso online and email the link to macworld no cost, execpt
time and bandwidth.
Maybe we can co-host with linuxiso.org?
I was thinking more of mailing them a burned CD.
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but that costs money to an open source project but we can get free
bandwidth hell maybe even off of apple's site. I'd be willing to make the
dmg or iso.
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Maybe we can co-host with linuxiso.org?
I was thinking more of mailing them a burned CD.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 11:44 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
There's no defense, because there's no violation. Failure to give
credit isn't nice, but it isn't a violation of the GPL either.
Speaking of GPL violations, OpenOSX *does* distribute an update
package for PHP at this page
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