Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread TNHarris
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 02:16:43 PM Thijs Schreijer wrote: > > They are both "you can do whatever you want and get away with it licenses", > but MIT is a clear legal statement, "public domain" is not. I think clear > is better. If you don't want to provide "explicit legal clearance" so it >

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On 27.11.2012 21:50, Hisham wrote: > Thanks to everyone who participated in this discussion, this must be > the most civil licensing discussion I've ever seen. This makes me > happy for our little community. :) > > Should we upload a revised 2.0-2 rockspec with an updated license field? I've made

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Hisham
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > By the way, I decided to use the same terms as lua, as suggested by > Hisham. Someone who doesn't agree to these terms wouldn't be using the > module in the first place. > > Sorry about making such a fuss about this, and thanks for the feed

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hi, On 27.11.2012 20:16, Thijs Schreijer wrote: > I don't favor one license over the other, they all serve their purpose. But > I do prefer clarity. Does adding the license to every single file in the distribution add to clarity, or does the current notice suffice? I see some people (mostly *BSD

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On 27.11.2012 20:16, Thijs Schreijer wrote: > They are both "you can do whatever you want and get away with it licenses", > but MIT is a clear legal statement, "public domain" is not. I think clear is > better. If you don't want to provide "explicit legal clearance" so it can't > be used in proprie

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Thijs Schreijer
> -Original Message- > From: Hisham [mailto:h...@hisham.hm] > Sent: dinsdag 27 november 2012 19:55 > To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0 > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thijs Schreijer >

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Hisham
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thijs Schreijer wrote: >> >> Project homepage: http://bitbucket.org/wilhelmy/lua-bencode/ >> > > Minor remark; you mention "While not a license, all files in this repository > have been placed in the public domain because the authors do not believe in > intellectua

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Thijs Schreijer
> > Project homepage: http://bitbucket.org/wilhelmy/lua-bencode/ > Minor remark; you mention "While not a license, all files in this repository have been placed in the public domain because the authors do not believe in intellectual property.", and while that may be a true statement, in practice

Re: [Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 15:54:02 -0200, Elias Barrionovo wrote: > Well, I have no idea what bencode is or does and your email doesn't > provide any info with that. Also, it would be nice to have a link for > your project and not just for the rockspec. ^^ My apologies! I was way too excited t

[Luarocks-developers] [ANN] bencode-2.0

2012-11-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hello, I'm pleased to announce the release of bencode-2.0, which I have been putting off for way too long. Excerpt from the release notes: -- snip -- This is the second release of lua-bencode. API Changes: * Instead of throwing errors all over the place, nil and an error message will be retur