Re: How can I detect the compiler version used to generate a .a or .so library

2006-02-16 Thread Gelu Ionescu
Many thanks Alfred Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: How can I detect the compiler version used to generate a .a or .so library ? Depends on so many things, like if the compiler actually adds such data to the output files. GCC dumps such data in the .comments sections of ELF files, so you could

Re: Intellectual Property II

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alexander Terekhov wrote: [...] http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html -- This would not be a presentation about the GPL by me if emphasis was not placed on what you see before you now. This license is Not a Contract. You are not required to accept this License

Re: Intellectual Property II

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html Because the deterrent effect of denying the right to have and use and distribute free software is not enough in and of itself to break most patent aggression schemes. Where we have satisfied ourself that narrow targeted patent

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-16 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
What about permission to read my letters don't you understand? You are being singularly disingenuous. What part of `permission to access the CD' do _you_ not understand? ___ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org

Eben was absent that day in law school

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-warranty - The warranty exclusions that were in GPL2 have not been changed saving one way: I took them out of all uppercase. [laughter] I've wanted to do that for a very long time. I've wanted to do that for a very long time

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: [...] (And that citation is actually from Frank Zappa, not Confucius, parachutes didn't exist in 500BC, and the proper citation is `A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it is not open'.) :-) Great Confucius also said: Man with an unchecked parachute will

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-16 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
In fact, the entries I quoted refute all the assertions made by Alfred and yourself: You have serious reading problems. 1. Users of a web-based program are not covered by the GPL (and you who like to extrapolate should have no problem in applying that to people in front of a glass