feedback and the license of Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
bkuhn wrote: > > I don't know if the Preamble I wrote if perfect, because I got very > > little feedback on it, and all the RFCs this group submitted. Those > > last two weeks before RFC's were due, the traffic on this list was > > basically dead, except for me posting revisions of RFCs. I hope

Re: interesting read: why the EROS project has switched from C++ to C

2001-01-16 Thread David L. Nicol
Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:49:57PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: > > http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/eros-arch/2001-January/002683.html > > Uhm. That's not *why* they're doing it, it's how they're doing it. > Did you get the right URL? I thought I did -- now that message

Re: vtbl-based SVs and sv_setsv()

2001-01-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:30 PM 1/16/01 +, David Mitchell wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Subject: Re: vtbl-based SVs and sv_setsv() > > > > At 06:42 PM 1/13/01 -0800, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: > > >How is setting one SV from another going to be implemented? > > >My (admittedly vague) recollection

Re: interesting read: why the EROS project has switched from C++ to C

2001-01-16 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:49:57PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: > http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/eros-arch/2001-January/002683.html Uhm. That's not *why* they're doing it, it's how they're doing it. Did you get the right URL? I went to a lecture by Knuth today on Literate Programming. He's got

interesting read: why the EROS project has switched from C++ to C

2001-01-16 Thread David L. Nicol
http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/eros-arch/2001-January/002683.html

Re: vtbl-based SVs and sv_setsv()

2001-01-16 Thread David Mitchell
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Subject: Re: vtbl-based SVs and sv_setsv() > > At 06:42 PM 1/13/01 -0800, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: > >How is setting one SV from another going to be implemented? > >My (admittedly vague) recollection was that it would be > >something like > > > >void sv_setsv

Re: Making sure "Perl" means "Perl" (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Ben Tilly
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts > > about it in other places is that the GPL is both a copyright license and > > a contr

Re: The "Do what you want" license and enforceability (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
David Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Satisfying Stillman might be good enough for the FSF and ODSN and GNU, > but that's quite insubstantial and superficial. (It's Stallman; I wouldn't say anything, but I've seen that twice now.) Note that Stallman is already satisfied with the license on

Re: Making sure "Perl" means "Perl" (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the >> proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. > MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts > about it in other plac

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Bradley M Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if the Preamble I wrote if perfect, because I got very > little feedback on it, and all the RFCs this group submitted. Those > last two weeks before RFC's were due, the traffic on this list was > basically dead, except for me posting revi