From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15505 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: ConTeXt-Wiki Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:51:48 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <40D944A4.5030402@gmx.de> References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040601200608.01eb9640@server-1> <20040622161300.GA5608@swordfish> <34371.80.58.5.46.1087924408.squirrel@bitmail.bitmailer.com> <0D45B077-C4DA-11D8-972E-000A9595B57C@ensta.fr> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087980992 25527 80.91.224.253 (23 Jun 2004 08:56:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Maurice Diamantin Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Jun 23 10:56:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bd3YQ-0002ry-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:26 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCE910B6B; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:23 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from down.physik.fu-berlin.de (down.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.6]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B401E10B48 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:51:49 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (burns.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.33.1]) by down.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.11.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i5N8pnU1531864; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:51:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-From: burnus@gmx.de X-ZEDV-BeenThere: nukleon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-gb, en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <0D45B077-C4DA-11D8-972E-000A9595B57C@ensta.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15505 Hello, Maurice Diamantin wrote: > - how about ConTeXt future (why it is not open source?) Well, ConTeXt is regarded as opensource. The last time I read the licence it looked pretty free. In how far do you think should ConTeXt become more "open source"? BSD licence without advertising clause? LGPL? Note that teTeX comes with this licence statement by Thomas Esser ("doc/context/base/LICENSE.teTeX"): "I have taken great care to ensure that teTeX is free software. When speaking about free software, I always refer to the definition of the Free Software Foundation, given as http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. To my understanding, ConTeXt with the mreadme.pdf-license already classifies as free software (as defined by the FSF). To be 100% sure of this fact, I hereby make ConTeXt free software "by definition" by adding the following clause to ConTeXt's license: If ConTeXt is not free software by the license in mreadme.pdf, the following terms replace the licence for ConTeXt given in mreadme.pdf: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.[...]" > - which/where is the reference documentation > (don't reply with some recursive answer!) Hmm, the problem is that the documentation is* notoriously outdated and incomplete. But I think the "ConTeXt - the manual" is rather good though incomplete. * > - how many euro poeple would pay for a reference > ConTeXt book? You mean a printed version of the revised/enhanced "ConTeXt - a manual"? Regards, Tobias