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by gillianseed 11y ago
API's are not functional code, they are specifications on how to communicate with said code, these specifications have never been considered copyrightable until Oracle and Microsoft started this legal campaign. Non-copyrightable API&#x
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Not really when you take into account their backing of Oracle in making API's copyrighted.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Yes that was indeed the case, Sun Solaris was losing hard to Linux and they were trying to go the open source route to get back on track (OpenSolaris), however since they (rather obviously) did not want to hand over their key technology adv
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Both of which GNU regards as free software licenses, but says to not use them because they don't bow to the FSF. CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use Z
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Please stop trying to shove your license down my throat with a plunger. Are you kidding? How is he forcing you in any way to use his code ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>I would have to release it under GPL which I can't do. You don't have to release it under GPL, just a GPL compatible license, like MIT, BSD etc, what you are talking about is that you won't release the source code at all.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Eh, after reading the mailing list this seems like an odd title. From what I gather from what I read, Intel did not want to re-license/dual-license their Apache licensed code under the 'Go-license', and the Go project want al
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by gillianseed 11y ago
The only potentially relevant 'ARTOS' I found was here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operati... Which lists an active X86 project and a defunct ARM project named ARTOS, both proprietar
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Yes it's font lingo for sure :) Basically for fonts to look good when placed on a square grid (pixels) there is a method called hinting which as the name implies gives hints to the font renderer on how the fonts should be drawn across
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Another good bit is MESS and the emulators for the older consoles. Yes! It's very much in the shadow of MAME but it's a great project documenting old computers and consoles in the same way MAME documents arcade machines, as in
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by gillianseed 11y ago
They linked to the github repo linked in the first line of the announcement, you'll find the font files (ttf) in the 'hinted' directory. https://github.com/google/roboto
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Not as well when we use more than one core: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Mozilla is a nonprofit entity which pays some people to work on it. Mozilla now consists of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and the for-profit Mozilla corporation subsidiary.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>and you need to give them the custom tools, if the latter are using GPL, then who knows what the third-party artists might request. At most, source code to those custom tools which contain GPL licensed code. >if MAME is released unde
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>I wonder how strict they are on that aspect of things, because in Japan you still have a number of arcades with games from the 80s and 90s. Isnt that considered commercial circulation ? By that logic you wouldn't be able to emulate
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Doesn't GPL effectively prohibit combining it with a closed source commercial product? Well yes, since if you sell it to someone you need to offer them the source code should they want it. However the incentive here (as I understan
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by gillianseed 11y ago
As I recall this was to prevent the use of MAME in commercial arcade settings, beyond this MAME has a policy where they will only emulate arcade games which haven't had commercial circulation for a number of years. Same goes for the si
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by gillianseed 11y ago
I just made a quick browse of the commits and there's a lot of BSD-3 but also GPLv2, so I gather the full MAME project will be GPL licensed, but of course you can use the BSD-3 licensed code in non-GPL licensed projects.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Compacting garbage collectors don't have fragmentation issues At the expensive cost of moving memory blocks around in the managed heap, there is no silver bullet.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. my/mine imaginary deity/deities is/are the one true deity/deities, because, er, I say so, and so did my parents! how people can buy into the fairy-tales wh
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>that people will take code - put it under a different licence and modify it Ok, although the 'take code and put it under a different license' is untrue, you can't re-license code unless you are the copyright owner, I gath
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Nope—the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Does he offer any examples of this happening ?
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by gillianseed 12y ago
>As an upper performance bound for a GC language, I don't think Go will be able to surpass C# I don't know how well Mono C# compares to Microsoft's version, but looking at: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.or
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by gillianseed 12y ago
Perhaps an option where a majority of users (if more than two) need to opt for deleting the room ?
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by gillianseed 12y ago
Assuming you are the author (nice work!), any chance you'll consider adding support for the 'famicom disk system' ? It's a bit 'exotic' but there are some interesting NES games which only exists on the disk sys
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by gillianseed 12y ago
Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing , supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?
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by gillianseed 12y ago
xorg-dev and libgl1-mesa ? Where are these pulled in ?
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by gillianseed 12y ago
Well the project is in it's infancy, so this may change, but currently the only thing needed to run it is a platform that supports Go and OpenGL.
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by gillianseed 12y ago
>The trick in this case is for the project to have enough momentum so that you want to try and stay in sync with it and not maintain a bunch of your own changes. It's not that hard these days, particularly if you are a big company w
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by gillianseed 12y ago
>That doesn't make any sense. If people could take GPL code and switch it to MIT license then GPL would be meaningless He never said that, he said you can you can combine your permissively licensed code with GPL licensed code and _y

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