You mean something like the license codes that Jim Kingdon suggested in a segfault.org feature? Hm, I don't know, while it might simplify understanding what a license allows you to do quickly, it might also be confusing. I think the best solution is to have a few "standard" free licenses -- GPL, LGPL, BSDish etc. Having a lot of incompatible licenses is very evil, and making it easy to create new licenses doesn't make the situation better.
a. Modifications must not alter or remove any copyright notices in the Software.
b. When modifications to the Software are released under this license, a non-exclusive royalty-free right is granted to the initial developer of the Software to distribute your modification in future versions of the Software provided such versions remain available under these terms in addition to any other license(s) of the initial developer.
So, if lots of people/companies start using the QPL for their software, can code from several QPL'd projects be mixed? And if someone uses code from several QPL'd projects with different "initial developers", who gets the non-exclusive royalty-free right to the code of that project?
The FSF people think that the OS should be called GNU/Linux since Linux wasn't made by the FSF; a OS using only GNU software (whatever that is) is called GNU.
True, these guys have contributed a lot to the community and therefor earnt a lot of respect. But they can never speak for the whole community. They are not are leaders, they are people who we respect and we let them be our spokesmen. They shouldn't claim that their opinions are the same as the opinion of the whole community. If the community agrees with what they're saying, they will get our support, but they shouldn't take it for granted.
Free Software projects are usually aimed at solving a problem -- making it possible to do something you couldn't do or making it easier to do something (read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by esr). Sometimes there are proprietary programs already doing these things -- or almost doing it -- and in that case it's a good idea to borrow ideas from those programs.
True, but I don't think many GNU people think it's important to start a project whose goal is to make it possible to run windows (and other proprietary OS's) at the same time as GNU/Linux. (It's not on the GNU TODO list;)
Well, as you say this is a never ending discussion (see for instance the comments to the GNU/Linux vs. Linux poll on/.) The reason for calling the OS GNU/Linux is that the OS is more or less a GNU system with Linux (the kernel) instead of Hurd. Also, calling the whole OS Linux makes it difficult to know if you're reffering to the kernel or the whole OS when you say Linux. Anyway, read what RMS has to say and decide for yourself.
Well, RMS doesn't force you to say GNU/Linux, he just asks you to do so for the reasons that we all know. And just because you're not required to do something, does that mean that you shouldn't do it? You should give credit to RMS and the FSF for what they've done not because you have to, but because it's the right thing to do.
What version of WM are you using? And are you sure you have Gnome support compiled in? Didn't think so. In using WM version 0.51 w/ Gnome support and gnomepager_applet is working just fine.
To be more specific, the contrib section contains free software (according to the DFSG) that depends on non-free software. For example, LyX is in contrib since it depends on the non-free Xforms library.
To find out the real reason why the FSF-people don't like the BSD license read this.
It might also be a good idea to actually read the advertising clause -- it has nothing to do with adding acknowledgement to the source files. What it says is that you have to mention them when you advertise.
Read the license. It seems like a semi-free license -- you may distribute YaST and the sources and modify it if you clearly state that it's a modified version, but you may not charge for it (w/o permission).
Just because you can download the source code doesn't meen it's Free Software.
That's how it used to be: you'd just type a name, and if you didn't, you'd be called Anonymous Coward. However, some people started using other people's names so after a long discussion, Rob decided to use this system.
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You mean something like the license codes that Jim Kingdon suggested in a segfault.org feature? Hm, I don't know, while it might simplify understanding what a license allows you to do quickly, it might also be confusing. I think the best solution is to have a few "standard" free licenses -- GPL, LGPL, BSDish etc. Having a lot of incompatible licenses is very evil, and making it easy to create new licenses doesn't make the situation better.
I think he meant "Even if I could compress. . .".
The FSF people think that the OS should be called GNU/Linux since Linux wasn't made by the FSF; a OS using only GNU software (whatever that is) is called GNU.
True, these guys have contributed a lot to the community and therefor earnt a lot of respect. But they can never speak for the whole community. They are not are leaders, they are people who we respect and we let them be our spokesmen. They shouldn't claim that their opinions are the same as the opinion of the whole community. If the community agrees with what they're saying, they will get our support, but they shouldn't take it for granted.
You're looking for http://www.tuxedo.org/~ esr/jargon/html/0/404-compliant.html
Free Software projects are usually aimed at solving a problem -- making it possible to do something you couldn't do or making it easier to do something (read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by esr). Sometimes there are proprietary programs already doing these things -- or almost doing it -- and in that case it's a good idea to borrow ideas from those programs.
True, but I don't think many GNU people think it's important to start a project whose goal is to make it possible to run windows (and other proprietary OS's) at the same time as GNU/Linux. (It's not on the GNU TODO list ;)
Well, as you say this is a never ending discussion (see for instance the comments to the GNU/Linux vs. Linux poll on /.) The reason for calling the OS GNU/Linux is that the OS is more or less a GNU system with Linux (the kernel) instead of Hurd. Also, calling the whole OS Linux makes it difficult to know if you're reffering to the kernel or the whole OS when you say Linux. Anyway, read what RMS has to say and decide for yourself.
Well, RMS doesn't force you to say GNU/Linux, he
just asks you to do so for the reasons that we
all know. And just because you're not required to
do something, does that mean that you shouldn't
do it? You should give credit to RMS and the FSF
for what they've done not because you have to,
but because it's the right thing to do.
Try cheapbytes.
Of course, this is also possible with WM + gnome support.
What? Are you still using C++. D+++ is much better.
AM I missing something here? Why aren't there any GNOME SUX AND KDE RULZ vs KDE SUX AND GNOME RULZ threads?
What version of WM are you using? And are you sure you have Gnome support compiled in? Didn't think so. In using WM version 0.51 w/ Gnome support and gnomepager_applet is working just fine.
To be more specific, the contrib section contains free software (according to the DFSG) that depends on non-free software. For example, LyX is in contrib since it depends on the non-free Xforms library.
Isn't that the same day that GNOME 1.0 is supposed to be released on?
Actually, i believe Rob used to use HTML to write all his docs and print them with netscape.
And stop using TCWWW. It's http://slashdot.org, not http://www.slashdot.org
But what are guns supposed to be used for if not killing other people?
It might also be a good idea to actually read the advertising clause -- it has nothing to do with adding acknowledgement to the source files. What it says is that you have to mention them when you advertise.
Just because you can download the source code doesn't meen it's Free Software.
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HTH.
What he's trying to say is, click the "Up One" link ;>
What does this have to do with GNU? Oh well...