Archive: June 18, 2002
An update to my quest to find a good license to use for any software that I'd release:
Adam Langley pointed me to the license quick reference at zooko.com. Here's another short comparison.
These are helpful, but they're not enough, I'll have to read the whole text of all the licenses on opensource.org.
For now, here's a list of criteria for whatever license I would use:
- Open source - you have permission to use or modify the code for your own purposes, commercial, private, or educational.
- The unmodified source may be redistributed with no restrictions, provided that the license is kept intact.
- The modified source may be redistributed under the following conditions:
- Changes to the source must be made available to the author (copyright holder), and he must be notified.
- You must clearly state in each modified file what you changed.
I kind of like the Artistic License. I think I'm going to print out all these licenses and go over all of them. I may just create my own.  If I create my own, I'll probably explain what the differences are in terms of other open source licenses.
I just read The Open Source Definition. Actually a very interesting read.
Finally, via Computers > Open Source > Licenses in the Google directory, a list of GPL compatible licenses from the GNU project. There's a note about the Artistic License 2.0, which I suppose isn't finished yet, and seems to have been presented in a Perl 6 RFC. Here is an analysis of the changes in the new license. Was the original Artistic License written by Larry Wall?
My XML-RPC library is included with another product, PHPortal. I feel all warm inside. Check out their instructions for XML-RPC.
I never thought this would actually happen It looks like I should really get on figuring out a license, huh?
I just tried to send an e-mail to one of my professors at Rutgers, and the e-mail bounced back to me because it had the subject line "Hi". Their mail system considers any mail that begins with the subject "Hi" to be the W32/Goner@MM virus! Wow! That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. They also restrict "Happy New Year", and some other things.
Wow, just tried again. You can't even have "Hi" as the first word of your subject. Here's Rutgers' page listing all their restrictions on what they'll receive in e-mail.
RSS Workshop: Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web.
A ton of info about RSS. Missing a few things - it's not totally comprehensive. For instance it doesn't list Feedreader or AmphetaDesk. And RSS is an "application" of XML, not a subset of XML. But it's still a good resource, and hopefully it'll continue to grow.
Get some stuff about RSS auto-discovery on there as well. 
Whoa, we beat Mexico!. I want to get into the World Cup before it ends. I haven't watched a second of it so far.
xdesksoftware.com: Virtual Desktop Managers.
The vast majority of the computers (at this moment) have one single monitor on which one single (electronic) desktop is visible - and this space can easily become crowded by all the programs, applications and windows that people need to use - a Virtual Desktop Manager is a program that will provide you with multiple desktops by "virtualizing" the normal desktop, and as a result each of those virtual desktops will be better organized and more productive than the original (single) one! (and actually in certain conditions a good virtual desktop manager can be more effective than multiple monitors!)
I've been looking for a good virtual desktop manager for a long time, and never found one I could stay with.
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