Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for developers
than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
software licensed under the so-called GPL-incompatible licenses;
something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL
On Mon, 07 May 2007 11:32:36 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I am not sure I am convinced by these statements. As a developer, I
fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD style licenses
do -- unless you assume that all developers want to squirrel code
hi
just a clarification - is it the official policy to exclude BSD-licensed stuff
or foss on non-linux platforms from the scope of the conference?
regards
kg
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On Monday 07 May 2007 11:31, Anant Narayanan wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for
developers than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
The GPL allows
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
The original statement did not make this distinction. Had
you said that the authors not being helped by the GPL are closed
source folks, I
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:36, Anant Narayanan wrote:
[snip]
Anything is excess is bad, and in a world where good is a relative
term, it is not tough to interpret FSF's actions as monopolistic.
Basically you could say that the FSF is the Microsoft of the other
side :)
I fail to see the
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On Monday 07 May 2007 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
just a clarification - is it the official policy to exclude
BSD-licensed stuff or foss on non-linux platforms from the scope of
the conference?
No it is not. We are open to all FLOSS
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On Monday 07 May 2007 11:27, Anant Narayanan wrote:
[snip]
When someone makes minor changes to BSD-licensed code it is unlikely
that they are going to make millions of dollars out of it. If they
are, chances are that they've made significant
All you guys are fucking imbeciles.
P.
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On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 19:48 -0700, vivek khurana wrote:
[...]
I am proposing holding subconferences withing the
ilugd sept event. These subconferences will focus on
one issue i.e will be like a conference by a SIG under
teh banner of ilugd.
There had been attempts to organize a python
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 00:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
just a clarification - is it the official policy to exclude BSD-licensed stuff
or foss on non-linux platforms from the scope of the conference?
[...]
Um, it is not at all the policy, official or otherwise, to exclude any
legitimate
Quoting Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 00:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
just a clarification - is it the official policy to exclude BSD-licensed
stuff
or foss on non-linux platforms from the scope of the conference?
[...]
Um, it is not at all the policy,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip stuff implying it might be official ILUGD policy to exclude BSD-licenced
material because of my posts]
It isn't. I speak for my myself.
I believe BSD-licenced material is incompatible with freedom in the
long term, though its original motivation is noble. So it
On Mon, 7 May 2007 13:45:28 +0530, Raj Mathur said:
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip] The original statement did not make this distinction. Had you
said that the authors not being
On 07-May-07, at 9:55 PM, PJ wrote:
Incidently how come things like apache
and postgresql are surviving inspite of bsd style licenses - not
to speak about
perl, php, python etc etc. Or are the authors of all these morons
who dont
understand what is freedom?
The authors of these were
On 07-May-07, at 10:13 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
All you guys are fucking imbeciles.
My goodness. Such a perfect example of looking into a mirror.
more like a microsoft marketing slogan - eye-catching, grammaticaly
correct but contributes nothing to the discussion
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Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
in short, people who use BSD licenses are talented and lucky - I
could live with that
Not relying on luck in the first place would seem wiser.
PJ
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I think that this might work, but there needs to be
more
of a planning, including topics, and distribution of
times.
At present, there are three parallel tracks planned,
and
this looks to me like adding a fourth track. I am
not sure
if there
On 5/7/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 19:48 -0700, vivek khurana wrote:
[...]
I think that this might work, but there needs to be more
of a planning, including topics, and distribution of times.
At present, there are three parallel tracks planned, and
this
So, my objection is to the throttling of the supply side, by keeping
the enhancements from the community. With the GPL, if the demand
goes high enough, others can come in to supply to same service, or
people can help themselves -- since the supply of the enhancement
code
Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that
management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors.
While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open
organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such
implications, there must be some truth
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