[#11822] RCR: Input XML support in the base Ruby — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

15 messages 2001/03/01

[#11960] Not Ruby, for me, for the moment at least — "Michael Kreuzer" <mkreuzer@... (nospam)>

I wrote on this newsgroup last weekend about how I was considering using

11 messages 2001/03/04

[#12023] French RUG ? — "Jerome" <jeromg@...>

Hi fellow rubyers,

16 messages 2001/03/05

[#12103] disassembling and reassembling a hash — raja@... (Raja S.)

Given a hash, h1, will the following always hold?

20 messages 2001/03/06

[#12204] FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>

Ruby is, indeed, a very well designed language.

64 messages 2001/03/07
[#12250] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> 2001/03/07

>>>>> "GK" == GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:

[#12284] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 2001/03/08

In message "[ruby-talk:12250] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"

[#12289] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/03/08

Hi,

[#12452] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 2001/03/12

In message "[ruby-talk:12289] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"

[#12553] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/03/13

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

[#12329] Math package — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>

18 messages 2001/03/09

[#12330] Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2001/03/09
[#12374] Re: Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/03/10

Hi,

[#12349] Can Ruby-GTK display Gif Png or Jpeg files? — Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>

Ruby-san:

20 messages 2001/03/09

[#12444] class variables — Max Ischenko <max@...>

14 messages 2001/03/12

[#12606] Order, chaos, and change requests :) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

17 messages 2001/03/14

[#12635] email address regexp — "David Fung" <dfung@...>

i would like to locate probable email addresses in a bunch of text files,

12 messages 2001/03/14

[#12646] police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>

I just read this story on Slashdot

14 messages 2001/03/14
[#12651] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — pete@... (Pete Kernan) 2001/03/14

On 14 Mar 2001 11:46:35 -0800, Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> wrote:

[#12691] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...> 2001/03/15

On Wednesday 14 March 2001 15:40, Pete Kernan wrote:

[#12709] [OFFTOPIC] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — Stephen White <spwhite@...> 2001/03/16

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, W. Kent Starr wrote:

[#12655] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>

>===== Original Message From Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> =====

18 messages 2001/03/14

[#12706] Library packaging — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>

I have a project that I'm working on that needs to live two different lives,

30 messages 2001/03/16

[#12840] Looking for a decent compression scheme — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2001/03/19

[#12895] differences between range and array — "Doug Edmunds" <dae_alt3@...>

This code comes from the online code examples for

16 messages 2001/03/20
[#12896] Re: differences between range and array — "Hee-Sob Park" <phasis@...> 2001/03/20

[#12899] Re: differences between range and array — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/03/20

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hee-Sob Park wrote:

[#12960] TextBox ListBox — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

Attached is a little Spike that Chet and I are doing. It is a

13 messages 2001/03/20

[#12991] [ANN] Lapidary 0.2.0 — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>

Well, here's my first major contribution to the Ruby world: Lapidary. It's a

16 messages 2001/03/20

[#13028] mkmf question — Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>

15 messages 2001/03/21

[#13185] Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

21 messages 2001/03/25
[#13197] Re: Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2001/03/25

> Hi Dan,

[#13203] Re: Reading a file backwards — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/03/25

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#13210] Re: Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2001/03/25

"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote in message

[#13374] Passing an array to `exec'? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>

I'd like to do the following:

15 messages 2001/03/31

[#13397] Multidimensional arrays and hashes? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>

Is it possible in ruby to make use of constructs that correspond to

14 messages 2001/03/31

[ruby-talk:12242] Re: Licensing, Intellectual Property, and Ruby code (longish)

From: "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-03-07 19:35:48 UTC
List: ruby-talk #12242
"John van V." <john_van_v@yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]

Cutting material is one thing, but please, please leave
enough context for people to have a hope of knowing
what you are talking about.

>Ben Tilly:
> >...that if you want to do something like cut it to CD, you are going to 
>have
> > serious problems.  ...modules that cannot be used
> > in commercial code, it is a mess.
>
What I was talking about CPAN here.  Some modules can
be used in GPLed software.  Some cannot.  Some can be
bundled in proprietary software.  Some cannot.   Any
policy would, IMHO, be better than the current mess.
> >
> > > The one I'm leaning towards
> > >is having the site's "Terms of Service" specify ...
> > >the GNU Public
> > >License (GPL).
> >
> > Good idea.  Bad choice of license.

I should have never written that, given that the context
appears after and it has now been taken out of context
twice in a row.

The context is for a site that offers a Ruby version of
The Perl Cookbook.  If the goal of the site is to maximize
the usage of Ruby, then the snippets of code offered
should be available for use in virtually every kind of
software.

The GPL serves a different end.  It provides guarantees
that the users of software will possess certain rights.

>The general objection to the GPL is the perceived restriction on commercial 
>use
>of the code.  The criticism of the Artistic and Open Source licenses is 
>that is
>just business as usual.

The GPL qualifies as an open source license.  And the
criticisms, both for and against, of these licenses
quickly go beyond what you said, and can get very
complex.

>Like the Communist Manifesto, I have purposely not read the GPL, for the 
>simple
>reason that these documents rarely work as they are designed, though I have
>memorized much of the bill-o-rights
[...]

As you say, you refuse to read it.  I really don't
see anything that I can possibly add to that.

Anyways, when quoting me in the future, please try to
supply sufficient context to avoid confusing people.
This is particularly important when you are adding
busy people (like RMS) to the cc list who lack
context.

Ben
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