[License-discuss] Making the PHP FAQ generic

[Karl Fogel]

Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> writes:
>Note that these pages are generated by Drupal, not static HTML, so the
>patch isn't necessary (or rather, can't be applied). If you have a few
>minutes to incorporate Karl's suggestions, just send plain text of the
>next revision and one of us will put it into the HTML. Thanks!

Well, actually, a patch done the way Ben did it *is* useful.  The FAQ
content on this page is formatted in very clean HTML (using Drupal's
"raw HTML" editing mode), because the FAQ has special maintenance needs
that other pages don't have -- e.g., anchor IDs on the questions.

However, that also makes the FAQ portion of the page susceptible to
being patched in the way that Ben did (he actually asked me first in
IRC, and I explained the above to him).

Summary: the FAQ page is special; let's go shopping.

-Karl

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Fontana [mailto:rfontana at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:13 AM
>> To: Karl Fogel; license-discuss at opensource.org
>> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Making the PHP FAQ generic
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
>>> Also, it might good to talk about implementations of languages being
>>> open source, rather than the languages themselves.  It's a bit
>>> pedantic, but I think it can be worded naturally, and it would
>>> emphasize the conceptual cut one has to make to really understand the
>>> answer.  If you compile your C program with Borland's C compiler, that
>>> doesn't make your program closed-source; by the same token, if you run
>>> your Python program on the most widely-used implementation of Python,
>>> which is open source, that doesn't make your code open source by default.
>>>
>>> People who ask that question may think they're asking about the
>>> language, but they're really asking about the particular language
>>> implementation.  This should be made clear to them in the answer.
>>
>> +1. I encounter a surprising amount of confusion about this point.
>>
>>  - Richard
>>
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