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Life is unfortunately too short to do everythingLife is unfortunately too short to do everythingPosted Jul 10, 2009 9:10 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)In reply to: USPS goes open-source with tracking system (GCN) by Duncan Parent article: USPS goes open-source with tracking system (GCN)
While it would be nice in theory to see, admire, and be edified by Jon's Python code, he's a busy man, you know.
I for one, am happy to pay my subscription in support of all the things that he does have time for, related to LWNs news and technical coverage. Top-quality technical writing is an extremely precious commodity in the open-source world, and in my opinion we get far more bang per buck out of a Grumpy Editor review than we would out of a code drop for a relatively generic function.
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Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 10:30 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
+1
And they can even say the code is already GPL. As they don't distribute it, they don't need to give it to anyone.
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 14:00 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Which is what the Affero GPL is all about.
Go check it out.
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 14:07 UTC (Fri) by regala (subscriber, #15745) [Link]
do you plan on saying anything relevant ?
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 16:03 UTC (Fri) by dougsk (subscriber, #25954) [Link]
I think he did. See Section 2d.
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 17:11 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
This section is irrelevant since it does not apply to the sole copyright holder.
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 18:27 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
this would only be relevant if lwn decided to use this license for their code.
since they have not done so, pointing out that if they used a particular license they would be required to release the code running on their website is not relevant.
Life is unfortunately too short to do everything Posted Jul 10, 2009 21:15 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Wow, I thought it was relevant b/c it is a license which more people who care about freesoftware who write web apps should use. It empowers the user of the app. It promotes openness.
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