Re: Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-06-09 Thread poisondart
1. You seem to ignore the fact that volunteer teachers exist. 2. I aspire to not repeat history. Esp. history that I don't completely agree with... The description I supplied for the license I had in mind was not ready for your scrutiny, but as somebody else said licensing is less trivial than we

Re: PSP / mod_python ... how to get POST vars on .psp ?

2005-06-06 Thread poisondart
Would something like cgi.FieldStorage() be what you're looking for? form = cgi.FieldStorage() form[ ] = http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/node406.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-06-01 Thread poisondart
If this thread has shown anything it is I'm a bit green with respect to software licenses, but the other thing is that I consider myself as an isolated case and I wanted to know if there were others who wanted the same thing as me. I'm curious to know what the money that open source or GPL'd proje

Re: Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-05-31 Thread poisondart
> I'm a little curious about your position. > > Though code encodes knowledge (hence the word, of course :-), the > system of concepts embodied in your code is not the same thing as the > code itself. Right? > > So, firstly, I don't follow your argument there: how does it follow > from the fact th

Re: Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-05-29 Thread poisondart
With the exception of the example with neighbour Bobby (which directly utilizes my code for profit, in which case is a definite no), I don't see why your other examples should make me reconsider releasing my software for free--in all the cases you've described, the answer should be no. You publish

Re: Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-05-28 Thread poisondart
Thanks for the replies. They have been very helpful. I'll have to read through the licenses you've listed in more detail, but the creative commons license of which James William Pye mentions seems to be what I'll be using. The reason why I need people to review my code and also the ideas behind th

Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

2005-05-27 Thread poisondart
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right group to post this. If not, then I would appreciate if somebody could point me to the correct group. This is my first time releasing software to the public and I'm wanting to release a Python program I wrote for review (and critique) and testing on other plat

dynamically generating temporary files through python/cgi

2005-04-27 Thread poisondart
cate a bunch of timers to monitor files, it would be really expensive in load. Or perhaps is this a client-side mechanism? Thanks, - poisondart -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list