hackerjim

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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   As far as I can see Tarver is applying the US copyright concept of derivative in the license and that means that it would be hard to show that a non-compliant version of Shen was not derivative. You'd have to use clean-room techniques and
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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   Right. You never ever engage or use anything that is not open source. Right? Meanwhile out in the real world ..... Your concept of being unfettered tells you that you should have the right to park your tank on somebody else's lawn. Does
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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   The argument is simply again that the unusual license makes the language less amenable to survival because it does not appeal to people like yourself. That's your entire argument wrapped up in an awful lot of words . Yes - and? BTW if you
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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   Well that's your problem - a psychological one, it seems to me.
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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   AFAIK the guy who built it has written a book to appear this month and that's supposed to fix the standard. There's some stuff here http://www.shenlanguage.org/Documentation/shendoc.htm
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   by hackerjim 14y ago

   I was trying to find an argument in your post and gave up trying. Is there one? The sum of your argument seems to be that the license is a huge deterrent for people who think like you. I believe you - and? The license makes the work $free