<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 25 August 2009 19:29:31 Dotan Cohen wrote:<br>
> > Hi all!<br>
> ><br>
> > I have published a new essay about free software licences:<br>
> ><br>
> > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-<br>
> >wars/<br>
> ><br>
> > Any comments will be welcome.<br>
><br>
> Tens of comments here already:<br>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1356213/Getting-Through-the-F<br>
>OSS-License-Minefield<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Hi Dotan!<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks for submitting this story to Slashdot, (which got it accepted eventually). I submitted it too, but I didn't see it published. I'm not sure I understood the teaser paragraph:<br>
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<span style=" font-style:italic;">Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi Fish gives </span><a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/"><span style=" font-style:italic; text-decoration: underline; color:#0000c0;">an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one's FOSS project</span></a><span style=" font-style:italic;">, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."</span><br>
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<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>What I meant by giving the GPLed Freecell solving server example was that it's an option even if one only has found a strong-copylefted Freecell-solving library, which can work around the licence's limitations, and will allow you to use it withing programs of incompatible licences. On the other hand, you implied that it may not be an option due to the licence. But I may not read you correctly.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Anyway, thanks - I'll try to read the comments when I have some spare cycles. Oh, and I'm planning to respond to Mikhael Goikhman ("Migo") email too later as well.<br>
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Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/<br>
Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/<br>
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read.<br>
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