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This software is linked to copies of VLC http://videolan.org/ and XVID http://xvid.org/ both of which are released under the GPL license. The EULA for this software consititues a violation of this license. The LGPL license would allow for a proprietary program to use the library, but the GPL only allows other free programs to use it. A cease and desist order should be expected. And anyone who doesn't believe this, check the link: http://people.via.ecp.fr/~jb/VLCthieves2.jpg

Apparently much of SkyOS is built on GPLed Software.

From reading your link, it does seem that there is a question about some of the SkyOS licensed software being modified from GPL sources.

I also found few references to SkyOS as an open-source project on Google, as well as more than one article about possible gpl violations.

It may be all a big misunderstanding, or it may be that SkyOS is indeed built of modified PGL sourcees.

Does anyone have a link to the SkyOS license? It is refered to on thier download page (see above link), but I haven't been able to find a copy of it anywhere.

I can see it now. Tons of goatse ASCII's coming up :-/

His webpage logo is clealy a lop of poo.

Yes, it means what you think it means.
Just see the logo

Click on it !

Note the mirror.
libcaca - Colour AsCii Art library
it's da shit!
Hello /. folks! Please be easy on the server!
Images and tarball are mirrored at http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/local/libcaca/.
The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library. libcaca needs a terminal to work, thus it should work on all Unix systems (including Mac OS X) using either the slang library or the ncurses library, on DOS using the library, and on Windows systems using either slang or ncurses (through Cygwin emulation) or .
Libcaca is free software, and can be used, modified and ditributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Publice License. The logo on this page is copyrighted by Akira Toriyama so if anyone fancies drawing a new logo it would be much appreciated. Features

The differences with AAlib are the following:
* 16 available colours for character output
* dithering of colour images
* basic sprite primitives

But libcaca also has the following limitations:
* no support for brightness, contrast, gamma
* unefficient character-choosing algorithms
* no alternate fonts
* no raw keyboard support
* mouse support only works for slang
* no custom drivers a la AA-on-X

I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.
Screenshots

Here are my first libcaca attempts. On the left, my test application, an image viewer. On the right, my first port of an application so that it uses libcaca: the VLC media player.
As with all image processing applications, I needed the obligatory Lenna samples. From left to right: no dithering, ordered dithering, random dithering.
no dithering ordered dithering random dithering
Here are a few examples of my libcaca patch for libSDL. Once there is a libcaca backend for libSDL, any program using SDL can automatically benefit from libcaca's rendering routines. These examples show Frozen Bubble, the SABRE flight simulator, and the famous Doom. Frozen Bubble is fully playable, but SABRE and Doom aren't much due to the Ctrl and Shift keys not being recognized (see the TODO list about that).
Frozen Bubble SABRE Doom splash screen first Doom level Download libcaca
Latest libcaca release is libcaca-0.1.tar.gz. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files.
Until libcaca enters Debian, woody and sid users may use one of the following apt sources: (sorry, sarge is not supported yet)

deb http://sam.zoy.org/projects/debian woody main
deb-src http://sam.zoy.org/projects/debian woody main

deb http://sam.zoy.org/projects/debian sid main
deb-src http://sam.zoy.org/projects/debian sid main

Patch for libSDL
This simple patch was quickly hacked from the AAlib video driver. Apply it to the libSDL sources and configuree libSDL with --enable-video-caca. Then use the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to run your SDL programs with libcaca output, for instance Frozen Bubble:
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca frozen-bubble

Download patch-libsdl1.2-libcaca0.1.diff. Patch for VLC The libcaca patch for the VLC media player was already applied upstream. Check the CVS version. Development The mailing-list for libcaca users and developers is libcaca@lists.zoy.org. To subscribe, send an email to ecartis@lists.zoy.org containing the words "subscribe libcaca". To unsubscribe, just use "unsubscribe libcaca". Please report bugs and make suggestions to libcaca@lists.zoy.org. There is no public access to the SVN repository yet, but you can browse it using the web interface, for instance to have a look at the BUGS and TODO lists.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. I've an Apple 12" PBook with Matshita UJ-815 DVD-R drive, which refuses to read the VOBs on DVDs if the disc region differs from drive's one even with libdvdcss under Linux.
Videolan mailing list has a post explaining this. Needless to say, I was really pissed off when I realized that I can no longer watch my R1 discs except with my region-cracked standalone player.
And no, no firmware cracks out there either.

In France schools like Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Centrale or Ecole des Mines have been doing that for 200 years, with a total output of around 1000 "renaissance engineers" (ingenieur generaliste) per year. In French companies these diplomas usually make you start your career as a supervisor/manager in the industry, in consulting firms or financial services.

In my experience, the biggest problem with merging diffs happens when two or more developers have substantially different indentation formatting settings. For example, one developer using K&R style and another using the GNU style. Sometimes (particularly if the tab settings are different) I have to reindent the whole file before I can even read the code (C programmers understand why).

The reason this is a problem with CVS is because CVS does not make it easy to make reindenting an automatic part of the checkin/merge process. If CVS could reindent each file before diffing it against the repository, there would be a whole lot fewer diffs to actually merge. As it is, reindenting essentially kills CVS's ability to merge a branch back into the trunk.

- Robert Munafo

There's a MPEG-2 player I saw first at Linux Expo 99 and then Linux Expo 2000 that runs on x86 but also Sparc, etc.
It runs a DVD unencrypted at full rate on a Celeron 400. They support X, and also GGI.
It's (soon to be) GPL when the school agrees (it's written by students):

VideoLAN

It's very impressive !

Screenshots:

Soutenance

Linux Expo

There's a MPEG-2 player I saw first at Linux Expo 99 and then Linux Expo 2000 that runs on x86 but also Sparc, etc.
It runs a DVD unencrypted at full rate on a Celeron 400. They support X, and also GGI.
It's (soon to be) GPL when the school agrees (it's written by students):

VideoLAN

It's very impressive !

Screenshots:

Soutenance

Linux Expo

There's a MPEG-2 player I saw first at Linux Expo 99 and then Linux Expo 2000 that runs on x86 but also Sparc, etc.
It runs a DVD unencrypted at full rate on a Celeron 400. They support X, and also GGI.
It's (soon to be) GPL when the school agrees (it's written by students):

VideoLAN

It's very impressive !

Screenshots:

Soutenance

Linux Expo

I forgot to include these in the submitted story.. but here are 15 (low quality) images of some alpha units in action.