gnupic: GNU LIB for PIC
Subject:
Re: GNU LIB for PIC
From:
Bas Wijnen ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jul 2002 18:54:06 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207122028320.632-100000@fmf01.fwn.rug.nl>
Hi,
The idea sounds good, but if I were you, I would read some more about
licensing, especially LGPL vs GPL:
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html. The free software
foundation explicitly states, that usually the GPL is better, also for
libraries. The idea of LGPL is that the restriction the GPL poses, namely
that no non-GPL'd code may link to it, is not in the interest of creating
a world where everybody uses free software. This is true for libc, since
people will use a different lib with such a license. If you build
something original, they cannot since there is no other lib doing the same
thing. In that case, the GPL is more approriate, because people may
license their software as free (GPL) software in order to use the lib.
This argument builds heavily on the idea that free software is Good and
non-free software is Bad. If you are not convinced about that, please
read the philosofy section on the free software foundation's page:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
Bye,
Bas Wijnen
--
/** mastermind. input 4 numbers 0-5. output <right>.<in the right place> **/
main(){int c[4] ,x=3 ,l=getpid() ,i;; for( srand(l);c[ x]=- rand
()%6 ,x-- ;);; for( ;44> x;){ char a[9] ,*p=
"%.1f\n", b[9];x=i=0; gets(a);for (l=4 ;l-- ;)x+=-(a[l] -=48)==
(b[l ]=c[ l]); ;for (l=0;16 >i;l =++i %4)x
+=(b[i/4]+ a[l] ?0:( a[l]=b[i/4] =10)) ;printf(p,x *.1) ;};}
