Re: Linux Torvalds on GPL2
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:58:48 -0700, Matt Lewis
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>> I dunno, what would people think about a clause in the licence along
>> the lines of:
>> "you can give (or sell) a binary to anybody, just don't advertise it
>> as a "stable" release."
>
>Weirdly restrictive. I guess you're trying to keep from offending Rob
>or something?
LOL The idea is more to encourage all things to converge back to a
single point. I must admit in attempting to answer this I got a bit
lost in the Red Hat site first, then found Suse only sells boxed
versions, before settling on this to illustrate the rough idea I had:
http://www.mandriva.com/en/download
There are free versions, but also Mandriva Linux 2006 and Club
editions. The point was not so much that we can or should have that
next week, but the option should be left open to go that way or
something similar. See also below.
>> Obviously, old hands mostly already have that "beta" [1] , but a
>> steady trickle of new arrivals won't. That "steady trickle" may be
>> insignificant now, but might grow. Just another idea.
>> [1] and/or recompile the source, or friends they can ask direct
>
>Sorry, you lost me. Which "beta?"
The mental model I have is a bleeding edge version, which occasionally
gets tidied up into a beta version. If that passes muster, it gets
marked as stable (possibly without even recompiling it). Another take
is that a significant majority have to agree before a particular
version can be called "stable", not just one individual, as opposed to
my initial thought that only Rob gets to decide.
Another off-the-cuff thought: It may be enough that the name Euphoria
is trademarked, any derivative has to be called something else.
Suppose I wake up with a bad head one day (as I have been known to do)
and repackage/release "Euphoria 5.0 stable". No doubt some would get
confused, some decide to just ignore me, and some get hopping mad.
No harm in telling me I cannot do that in the first place, but then
again maybe not worthwhile. Ignore me, I'm just rambling out loud.
Regards,
Pete
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