The GPL and LGPL are great licenses, but unfortunately they don't allow you to link to all free software. Is there room for another GPL license, call it GPL-F, that is based on the GPL, but has the following exceptions: (1) You can link any GPL-F to any free software program. Etc.
The GNU Lesser GPL already does that; the GNU GPL includes clause 10 that lets you add a "compatibility clause" to your README saying "This code may be linked to any code that is released as free software." Or just release the same code under multiple licenses, as was done back when BSD had the ad clause.
GNU/Linux is a GNU system largely because its libc is GNU libc. Solaris would probably have Sun libc. Windows has MSVCRT; does Cygwin or the like turn Windows into GNU/Windows? I believe DOS + DJGPP = GNU/DOS; what do you say?
I wonder why The Tetris Company hasn't sued this guy yet since they threaten legal action against everyone who has even a vaguely similar tetris java applet on their web page.
You mean like this article which was posted to/. a while back? Bedter is back online, after it was determined that all Elorg and The Tetris Company LLC own about Tetris® is the ®. All they have to do is take "TETR", "ETRI", and "TRIS" out of the name. Thus, freepuzzlearena for Linux, DOS, and Windows.
If you do not copy the GPL'd code into your code, then GPL does not apply to your code.
Linking is legally considered creating a derivative work, and the import library for a GPL'd interface would be GPL, as function names are copied into the application binary.
If you stuff things into a library, you are using the library, not deriving from it.
Two interpretations:
This discriminates against systems without dynamic linking capability. For example, DOS doesn't have the.dll or.so mechanism; libraries are generally statically linked, and GPL infects all static linked programs.
The import library needed to link against a DLL is a "work based on the Program" and infects any program linked against it with GPL. Red Hat wants this interpretation to be true, for its Cygwin package depends on it.
A different concern: USPTO
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eBooks could be sort of the MP3 for books
Let's hope not. Fraunhofer and Thomson 0wn j00, erm, own MP3 technology. If the eBooks encoding is patented with license terms that require per-copy royalties (on all sold content and decoders and all encoders whether sold or not), people will just use other technologies (e.g. Ogg Vorbis codec instead of MP3 codec; some TeX derivative instead of eBooks).
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is nothing wrong with people paying for things.
It's always the same with copyrighted material: The system encourages publishers to publish trash. There is no warranty on the content, only on the media. If a fella doesn't like the content, he can't return it; he has been irreversibly screwed out of four hours of work.
The warez system is a way to try before you buy, and content authors who realize this may release their content under GNU FDL, OPL, or something similar.
I believe the AMA will be recognizing it as a disease soon, and will hopefully a pill to counter act its affects by 2005.
Get your troll pills here. If trolls are playing Vitamins on their boxen, they can't be trolling/. at the same time.
The unfortunate thing is that we can't just ignore them either, they will simply try harder to get our attention.
There is a limit as to how hard they will try. Ignore them hard enough (build enough karma to get the +1 bonus, then browse at 2) and they'll stop trying.
Reminds me of the XOR encryption Micros~1 used with synchronization between Windows CE and NT. In that case, the obfuscation key was susageP, Pegasus backward. (Pegasus was the code name for the project that became CE and is not connected with Pegasus Mail.)
ClanLib requires that your program be written in C++. Allegro also supports C (and Pascal on most platforms) and matches ClanLib's features bullet for bullet (I checked about a month ago).
the real platforms which do matter for the people who are going to DEVELOP for this OpenML platform, are THOSE platforms which are used by the MAJORITY of their potentional CONSUMERS, namely the people who are going to buy and play their games. These platforms are the CONSOLES... for the platforms where the most gamers are on. This mostly excludes Linux
Someone needs to make a really cheap PC with a good graphics subsystem that can run embedded Linux OS and can connect to an NTSC or PAL monitor (a TV if you didn't already know). Then Linux will not only have a console in the/dev/tty* sense but also in the gaming sense:-)
and consumer windows (win9x, winME)
Don't forget Windows CE, which powers some Dreamcast games (the ones ported from Windows 9x) and the misnamed X-Box (did the same people who named Mac OS 10 name that?).
You said it, Kev. I'll add that Allegro doesn't need a lot of setup code (just four lines; this is a _big_ factor in producing proof-of-concept demos), and it's not limited to fullscreen DirectX (i.e. you can make non-game apps with it).
To see some of my work with Allegro, go here. To see everybody else's, go here.
Don't just go after video/audio! Many game developers use DirectX not for the wonderful (ahem, *sarcasm*) APIs in Direct3D, but for the DirectInput and DirectPlay APIs.
So what keeps them from using OpenGL alongside DirectInput? That's what the AllegroGL library does. Works on *n?x; Win32 port 90% done.
Allegro is a cross platform game API maintained by Shawn Hargreaves, who used to work at Acclame. Write once, compile for DOS, Win32, Linux, a few other Unix-like systems, and BeOS. There are lots of games made with Allegro, including several by yours truly.
If you really don't want your stuff to be open to false accusations and paranoia, or if your stuff really is inflamatory, simply host it on your own box.
If someone were to dislike your content and complain to your ISP, the ISP would probably find something in its contract that lets it kill the connection between your server and the Internet. Unless you are on the backbone, you have to respect your upstream.
If you run your own physical server, or have your own physical server co-located, only you should be able to shut down access.
This is only true if you are on the Internet backbone. If you run your physical server, your upstream ISP could shut you down. This is the real reason ISPs take action against (for example) spammers, so that their upstreams don't take action against them.
mayhaps its time to bring back the days of good ole dial up BBSing?
Long distance is _not_ cheap. Try downloading the Red Hat 6.2 ISO over a 10c/min dialup connection.
Alternatives such as dialpad.com are not compatible with the low-baud modems normally used to connect to BBS's because their audio compression assumes voice not data.
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The GPL and LGPL are great licenses, but unfortunately they don't allow you to link to all free software. Is there room for another GPL license, call it GPL-F, that is based on the GPL, but has the following exceptions: (1) You can link any GPL-F to any free software program. Etc.
The GNU Lesser GPL already does that; the GNU GPL includes clause 10 that lets you add a "compatibility clause" to your README saying "This code may be linked to any code that is released as free software." Or just release the same code under multiple licenses, as was done back when BSD had the ad clause.
GNU/Linux is a GNU system largely because its libc is GNU libc. Solaris would probably have Sun libc. Windows has MSVCRT; does Cygwin or the like turn Windows into GNU/Windows? I believe DOS + DJGPP = GNU/DOS; what do you say?
Those "dozens of napster clients" will not become "useless" if opennap has anything to say about it.
[What would happen if Apple went open-source?]
Apple has released the Mac OS 10 kernel Darwin as semi-free software.
You wrote SAT (or ACT) test; PC computer; SIMM memory; FSF foundation. Others added PIN number; NIC card; ATM machine. I'll add DSS system, RISC computer, and...
The CORBA Architecture.
You know why we call it that? <ianal>The law considers trademarks to be adjectives.</ianal>
No, Dot(TM) from Warner Bros.(TM) Animaniacs(TM).
I'm starting to see Animaniacs in a different way.
I wonder why The Tetris Company hasn't sued this guy yet since they threaten legal action against everyone who has even a vaguely similar tetris java applet on their web page.
You mean like this article which was posted to /. a while back? Bedter is back online, after it was determined that all Elorg and The Tetris Company LLC own about Tetris® is the ®. All they have to do is take "TETR", "ETRI", and "TRIS" out of the name. Thus, freepuzzlearena for Linux, DOS, and Windows.
If you do not copy the GPL'd code into your code, then GPL does not apply to your code.
Linking is legally considered creating a derivative work, and the import library for a GPL'd interface would be GPL, as function names are copied into the application binary.
</IANAL>If you stuff things into a library, you are using the library, not deriving from it.
Two interpretations:
- This discriminates against systems without dynamic linking capability. For example, DOS doesn't have the
.dll or .so mechanism; libraries are generally statically linked, and GPL infects all static linked programs. - The import library needed to link against a DLL is a "work based on the Program" and infects any program linked against it with GPL. Red Hat wants this interpretation to be true, for its Cygwin package depends on it.
Viral license. Viral games.eBooks could be sort of the MP3 for books
Let's hope not. Fraunhofer and Thomson 0wn j00, erm, own MP3 technology. If the eBooks encoding is patented with license terms that require per-copy royalties (on all sold content and decoders and all encoders whether sold or not), people will just use other technologies (e.g. Ogg Vorbis codec instead of MP3 codec; some TeX derivative instead of eBooks).
is nothing wrong with people paying for things.
It's always the same with copyrighted material: The system encourages publishers to publish trash. There is no warranty on the content, only on the media. If a fella doesn't like the content, he can't return it; he has been irreversibly screwed out of four hours of work.
The warez system is a way to try before you buy, and content authors who realize this may release their content under GNU FDL, OPL, or something similar.
I believe the AMA will be recognizing it as a disease soon, and will hopefully a pill to counter act its affects by 2005.
Get your troll pills here. If trolls are playing Vitamins on their boxen, they can't be trolling /. at the same time.
The unfortunate thing is that we can't just ignore them either, they will simply try harder to get our attention.
There is a limit as to how hard they will try. Ignore them hard enough (build enough karma to get the +1 bonus, then browse at 2) and they'll stop trying.
Reminds me of the XOR encryption Micros~1 used with synchronization between Windows CE and NT. In that case, the obfuscation key was susageP, Pegasus backward. (Pegasus was the code name for the project that became CE and is not connected with Pegasus Mail.)
ClanLib requires that your program be written in C++. Allegro also supports C (and Pascal on most platforms) and matches ClanLib's features bullet for bullet (I checked about a month ago).
the real platforms which do matter for the people who are going to DEVELOP for this OpenML platform, are THOSE platforms which are used by the MAJORITY of their potentional CONSUMERS, namely the people who are going to buy and play their games. These platforms are the CONSOLES ... for the platforms where the most gamers are on. This mostly excludes Linux
Someone needs to make a really cheap PC with a good graphics subsystem that can run embedded Linux OS and can connect to an NTSC or PAL monitor (a TV if you didn't already know). Then Linux will not only have a console in the /dev/tty* sense but also in the gaming sense :-)
and consumer windows (win9x, winME)
Don't forget Windows CE, which powers some Dreamcast games (the ones ported from Windows 9x) and the misnamed X-Box (did the same people who named Mac OS 10 name that?).
You said it, Kev. I'll add that Allegro doesn't need a lot of setup code (just four lines; this is a _big_ factor in producing proof-of-concept demos), and it's not limited to fullscreen DirectX (i.e. you can make non-game apps with it).
To see some of my work with Allegro, go here. To see everybody else's, go here.
Don't just go after video/audio! Many game developers use DirectX not for the wonderful (ahem, *sarcasm*) APIs in Direct3D, but for the DirectInput and DirectPlay APIs.
So what keeps them from using OpenGL alongside DirectInput? That's what the AllegroGL library does. Works on *n?x; Win32 port 90% done.
I don't think Intel makes much Mac hardware
Didn't Intel make USB?
Allegro is a cross platform game API maintained by Shawn Hargreaves, who used to work at Acclame. Write once, compile for DOS, Win32, Linux, a few other Unix-like systems, and BeOS. There are lots of games made with Allegro, including several by yours truly.
Or the little creatures you click on repeatedly, one after another, trying to make them not overrun you? That's Hampsterdeath.
If you really don't want your stuff to be open to false accusations and paranoia, or if your stuff really is inflamatory, simply host it on your own box.
If someone were to dislike your content and complain to your ISP, the ISP would probably find something in its contract that lets it kill the connection between your server and the Internet. Unless you are on the backbone, you have to respect your upstream.
If you run your own physical server, or have your own physical server co-located, only you should be able to shut down access.
This is only true if you are on the Internet backbone. If you run your physical server, your upstream ISP could shut you down. This is the real reason ISPs take action against (for example) spammers, so that their upstreams don't take action against them.
get any complaint, kneejerk yank a page
Wouldn't it be "kneejerk kill a page"? In Emacs, yank means paste; kill means cut.
mayhaps its time to bring back the days of good ole dial up BBSing?