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HP-41 modules and GPL
04-08-2018, 09:16 PM
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RE: HP-41 modules and GPL
(04-08-2018 08:25 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  The way I see it, there's much we should be thankful for to the efforts of folks that still today are putting a lot of effort to preserve the legacy of this machine. Frankly I don't see the point you want to make with this; raising this as a potential issue at this point in the game (more than 3o years after the obsolescence of the platform) seems off-base to me.

Sorry to stir up trouble, but being in the software business I tend to take these matters seriously. I cannot just go around and do whatever pleases me just because it makes my life easier.

What I want to accomplish with all this is the following:

People should be more aware what it means when a GPL license is attached to a package and what implications it has.

On another trajectory, I would be very grateful if what comes out of this is we all as a community gets things into a better shape. Meaning that we as a community know where the actual source code for a particular module is to be found, and preferably that it does not go away when some particular person happens to go away (for whatever reason that may be).

For legacy matters, there is probably not much we can do about all those old modules. Sometimes we are lucky in that people from the past shows up and we may be able to get another piece to this puzzle.

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HP-41 modules and GPL - hth - 04-08-2018, 07:47 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - pier4r - 04-08-2018, 08:07 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - hth - 04-08-2018, 09:08 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - hth - 04-08-2018, 08:41 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - Ángel Martin - 04-08-2018, 08:25 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - hth - 04-08-2018 09:16 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - pier4r - 04-08-2018, 08:31 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - Guenter Schink - 04-08-2018, 08:42 PM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - hth - 04-09-2018, 12:54 AM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - mfleming - 04-09-2018, 02:35 AM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - jjohnson873 - 04-09-2018, 02:56 AM
RE: HP-41 modules and GPL - Warbucks - 04-09-2018, 03:42 AM



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