From edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu Mon Jan 28 00:25:53 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cherlin@pacbell.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 28 Jan 2002 08:25:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 55679 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 08:25:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2002 08:25:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net) (64.164.98.8) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 08:25:51 -0000 Received: from there ([216.102.199.245]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GQN00D7Q3F30E@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:25:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:25:51 -0800 Subject: Free Software (or Open Source) (was Re: [lojban] Perl "drill" program...) In-reply-to: To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-id: <0GQN00D7R3F30E@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> Organization: Web for Humans MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable References: X-eGroups-From: Edward Cherlin From: Edward Cherlin Reply-To: edward@webforhumans.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=31895329 X-Yahoo-Profile: echerlin On Thursday 24 January 2002 06:05 am, Deven T. Corzine wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, John Cowan wrote: > > Deven T. Corzine wrote: > > > Okay, I realize I'm responding to a year-old message here.=20 > > > That shows how much time I find to keep up with this mailing > > > list, much less study Lojban! > > > > In Lojban, no thread is ever truly dead. Yes, I intend to bring up the anti-ka thread again from, I think,=20 four years ago as soon as I find out what the refgrammar has to say=20 on the various components of the subject. I got my copy just a few=20 weeks ago, and have been plowing steadily through it. > Is that good or bad? :-) It's vital. > > > It wasn't a perfect program, and I never released it, but it > > > worked very effectively for me... > > > > Sounds interesting. Please do release it with an Open Source > > license; http://www.opensource.org/licenses Better, yet, register it as a project at SourceForge,=20 http://sourceforge.net, and let other people hack on it. I could do=20 with a version that understood Unicode, for my daughter who is=20 studying Japanese, and for other uses. > I'm not sure it's in a form suitable for release at the moment -- > maybe I should clean it up a bit first. I'll have to take a look > at it. (Don't let me forget!) > > Assuming I release it (and I probably will), I would use an Open > Source license for it, though I don't know offhand which one... > > Deven I won't argue the merits of Free Software vs. Open Source vs. BSD=20 etc. licensing here. There are plenty of other places to do it. :-) --=20 Edward Cherlin edward@webforhumans.com Does your Web site work?