> Is offloading then th Rocket meant as a barrier against the "poison pill" > character of GPL?
What poison pill? I recall some m$ propaganda, but not any actual facts. If you violate the GPL then you are subject to litigation, but you don't lose rights to your own code. In particular, you are not obligated to license your code under the GPL. Mind you, I have issues with the FSF, but let's be fair. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS) On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > >> You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the >> one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about > IIRC, IBM used to distribute Ported Tools. Is offloading then th Rocket meant as a barrier against the "poison pill" character of GPL? This works best if Rocket licenses no source code from IBM. >> hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS >> needs a serious facelift to include tools and utilities commonly available >> on other *nix variants like Linux and MacOS and Cygwin. >> > >IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a >"POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a >group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't >have any real equivalent to. I will give them a pass on porting the GNU >Compiler Collection (GCC) because that would negatively impact their own >compiler products. They especially need to replace their inferior versions >of: grep; sed; find; awk. > Vim? Recently with both MacOS and Linux I tried editing with Vim a file containing: Latin Кириллица Ελληνικά Converting the line with "gU$" to upper case, I got: LATIN КИРИЛЛИЦА ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΆ Excellent! Could any editor on z/OS do as well? For that matter, could any terminal emulator display all those characters? Perhaps the much-vaunted PCOMM? Or Vista? (It was so easy to copy and paste those lines into this message with MacOS!) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
