Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Chris Down
NRK writes: > Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above > copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not > "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated" > or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Raymond Cole
On 24/10/26 09:15PM, Страхиња Радић wrote: > The main question that I, as a user, have is: what does a program do, > what is its main function? If it overlaps with some other program, the > second thing I am asking is: what does it do better? And, having in > mind the suckless philosophy, the fo

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobar

2024-10-26 Thread Raymond Cole
On 24/10/25 08:24PM, Страхиња Радић wrote: > This has already been discussed: > > https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2306/35253.html > > and > > https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2306/35258.html > > In other words, when you license a work under GPL, you license **the > whole work** under GPL. You can

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
It would be nice to hear an explanation, why swm? What are its advantages over dwm? What are its flaws? Why should we try it? Why making patches to dwm wasn't enough and you decided to fork it? On 25/10/2024 13:41, Raymond Cole wrote: > On 24/10/25 12:55PM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > On Fri, Oc

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Страхиња Радић
Дана 24/10/26 04:07PM, Jeffrey Picard написа: > Fuck GPL That is a political opinion. My own opinion re: GPL vs [insert "lax" license here], while irrelevant to this thread, is that a stricter (in a way) license is better in making sure the freedom is not taken away by malicious proprietary compan

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Picard
On 10/25/24 14:39, Andrey Dobrovolsky wrote: пт, 25 жовт. 2024 р. о 21:40 Страхиња Радић пише: Дана 24/10/25 04:40PM, Andrey Dobrovolsky написа: Soon 14701 act by US government will be applied to all GPL licensed software. Any references to whatever that is? Web search doesn't seem to retur

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Страхиња Радић
Disclaimer: I am just a suckless software user and enthusiast. Дана 24/10/26 05:57AM, Raymond Cole написа: > I suggest considering swm as a new project that borrows code from > dwm. [...] > Finally, has anyone actually looked at things of my projects other than > the license? The main question t

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Страхиња Радић
Дана 24/10/25 09:39PM, Andrey Dobrovolsky написа: > First of all I need to apologize for mentioning the wrong number > (sorry!), the right is Executive Order 14071 (oops) and describes > sanctions against Russian Federation. The use case was banning of 11 > developers from RF from Linux Kernel main

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Andrey Dobrovolsky
пт, 25 жовт. 2024 р. о 21:40 Страхиња Радић пише: > > Дана 24/10/25 04:40PM, Andrey Dobrovolsky написа: > > Soon 14701 act by US government will be applied to all GPL licensed > > software. > > Any references to whatever that is? Web search doesn't seem to return > anything relevant here. > Hi Стр

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Raymond Cole
On 24/10/26 12:56PM, Chris Down wrote: > Restore the Git history, or violate the license: it's as simple as that. > Prove it.

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread NRK
> > Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above > > copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not > > "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated" > > or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting > > re

Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

2024-10-26 Thread Chris Down
Raymond Cole writes: Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated" or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting