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I always love to see Prolog in the wild, but a project that's this protective about its documentation (e.g., http://pages.xlog.ch/littab/doclet/en/docs/15_manua

by JadeNB 4y ago

I always love to see Prolog in the wild, but a project that's this protective about its documentation (e.g., http://pages.xlog.ch/littab/doclet/en/docs/15_manual/02_reference/package.html http://pages.xlog.ch/littab/doclet/en/docs/15_manual/02_refe...): > All industrial property rights regarding the information - copyright and patent rights in particular - are the sole property of XLOG Technologies AG. If the company was not the originator of some excerpts, XLOG Technologies AG has at least obtained the right to reproduce, change and translate the information. > Reproduction is restricted to the whole unaltered document. Reproduction of the information is only allowed for non-commercial uses. Small excerpts can be used if properly cited. Citations must at least include the document title, the product family, the product version, the company, the date and the page. (am I already violating the provisions by quoting those paragraphs?) makes me immediately scared of what will happen if I use it.

nerdponx 4y ago
The Common Lisp HyperSpec has a similarly nerve-wracking proprietary license. The result is that nobody is able to so much as reupload its contents in a different web UI, let alone make substantive additions to it, even if the additions are clearly labeled as such and the original content is not modified.
- lispm 4y ago
  The HyperSpec is a specific web UI to the ANSI Common Lisp Standard (actually some ANSI CL documentation version before it was officially published as a standards document). In this case the HyperSpec is based on the works of a standardization body AND is the specific HTML version (incl. more documentation from the standardization) created by a company. There are other versions in HTML (and also other documentation formats, IIRC) of the ANSI CL standard. One example is this web version, provided by Franz, Inc.: https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl.94/ansicl.htm https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl.94/ansicl.htm The content is basically the same as in the HyperSpec, but the rendering to HTML is very different.

by JadeNB 4y ago

nerdponx 4y ago

The Common Lisp HyperSpec has a similarly nerve-wracking proprietary license. The result is that nobody is able to so much as reupload its contents in a different web UI, let alone make substantive additions to it, even if the additions are clearly labeled as such and the original content is not modified.

lispm 4y ago
The HyperSpec is a specific web UI to the ANSI Common Lisp Standard (actually some ANSI CL documentation version before it was officially published as a standards document). In this case the HyperSpec is based on the works of a standardization body AND is the specific HTML version (incl. more documentation from the standardization) created by a company. There are other versions in HTML (and also other documentation formats, IIRC) of the ANSI CL standard. One example is this web version, provided by Franz, Inc.: https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl.94/ansicl.htm https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl.94/ansicl.htm The content is basically the same as in the HyperSpec, but the rendering to HTML is very different.