From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/75990 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"? Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 14:30:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4FA66EF7.9080605@wxs.nl> References: <4F9599BC.2000301@wxs.nl> <7D65149D-9556-4AA2-AFED-192F89E74DC8@googlemail.com> <20120506113350.GU31075@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336307462 2824 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2012 12:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 12:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Pontus Lurcock To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 06 14:31:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SR0c8-0003uX-3T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2012 14:31:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44464101E7; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5oxdsBDBuOg6; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE549101DF; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B51101DF for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UaMlllpbLDfh for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD9B101CF for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q46CUrsQ017086 for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:30:53 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1730-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 06 May 2012 14:30:47 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120506113350.GU31075@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NH6AuRno - ce8411befef4 - 20120506 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:75990 Archived-At: On 6-5-2012 13:33, Pontus Lurcock wrote: > On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> >> Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: >> >>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: >>>> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ >>> """ >>> ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document >>> Engineering, is not open source software, >>> """ >>> Hm, I'm not sure that it's correct. >> >> ConTeXt is licensed under the GPL, you can find the information in this document: http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mreadme.pdf > > There was previous discussion and clarification on this at > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially > and > http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110301.213750.c7a55835.en.html . In the past (previous century, first releases) there hqad been some restrictions (i've forgotten which) that had to do with the fact that a third party was using context for a project and that we got notice that lawyers of that company would claimed copyright of context because it had become part of their workflow ... so, we had to make sure that by making context public it could not be used against us (like: we take context, add a few lines, and now it's ours). Then someone convinced us that people who 'd do such things would probably get themselves outcast from any community anyway, i.e. that there is some protection is being part of the tex community. I think that there are still some recomendations with respect to not using the same filenames for patched files (simply because tex is always a large file infrastructure and we don't want to be bothered with support for such patched). AFAIK that is not much different than with latex. Anyhow, license discussions are mostly wasted on me. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________