Subject:
Re: GNU LIB for PIC
From:
"Robert S. Sciuk" ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jul 2002 20:44:00 -0000
Message-Id: <20020712163018.L29148-100000@schizo.controlq.com>
As I wade in on holy territory ... I might humbly suggest the BSD license
-- no restrictions, no glitches, no politics, no Stallman! The best of
all possible worlds -- IMHO.
Cheers,
Rob
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> 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) ;};}
>
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