[License-discuss] Making the PHP FAQ generic

[Luis Villa]

My apologies! Learn something new every day. I will confer offline
about how in the heck you actually *apply* the patch :)

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel at red-bean.com> wrote:
> 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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