Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-19 Thread John Mandereau
Werner LEMBERG a écrit : Sorry, I don't understand the problem. Why will this lilypond fix break something in Canorus or vice versa? Canorus installs Truetype versions of some of those fonts, system-wide. The Lilypond configure command finds some of those truetype fonts via fc-match in

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Graham, Graham Percival a écrit : I've been offered a scholarship to do my PhD at the University of Glasgow, which I'm of course eagerly accepting. I'll be starting in Sep or Oct. Congatulations! 2) I might organize European vacations around other lilypond contributors, starting with a

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread John Mandereau
Hi Valentin, Valentin Villenave a écrit : Josh is right, this sentence doesn't really make sense. We recently had a discussion about this very subject with John, who 's in the same situation as you are, and is merely forced to contribute to proprietary music software :-) If I'd like to develop

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 19-03-2009 om 21:35 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: > Fascinating! Yes, I also remember to have heard such works were "public domain" > clear that there is no **domestic** copyright protection ... may just have been a confusion about the importance of the rumour that

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:09:10PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2009/3/18 Graham Percival : > > That's the fun thing about logical implication.  A false premise > > logically implies any conclusion, even impossible ones. > > Yes but I'd call it begging the question, a fallacy > > http://en.wiki

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:45:38PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <20090318154151.ga4...@nagi>, Graham Percival > writes >> I believe that source code is only un-copyrightable if it's done >> for a certain kinds of US government contract. (there's some law >> about government ma

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090318154151.ga4...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes I believe that source code is only un-copyrightable if it's done for a certain kinds of US government contract. (there's some law about government materials being public domain, although that obviously doesn't apply to everything t

Re: [GUB3] How should Guile and Flex be built?

2009-03-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 13-03-2009 om 13:26 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef John Mandereau: > Not at all: I set PLATFORMS=linux-64 to avoid choking on odcctools > compilation, and dependencies fail for both > Python versions I have tested (2.5 shipped with Fedora 9, and > self-compiled 2.6.1). A clean build (