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QT Licensing - Was--> Re: The virtualbox license --- clarification from the FAQ --
by Ravindra Jaju 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Faraz Shahbazker < faraz.shahbazker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > And more .. clearly contradicting: > > > http://trolltech.com/developer/faqs/192?hotspoturl=http%3A//trolltech.com/d… > > http://trolltech.com/developer/faqs/191?hotspoturl=http%3A//trolltech.com/d… > > Hi. I don't (yet) see a contradiction. Opera bought licenses from QT, hence they can produce closed-source software. The reason Opera bought license(s) was to keep their own stuff (ie - the browser) built on top of QT and other things closely guarded. The important entity to consider in this entire picture is Trolltech - they own all copyrights to the code. So, they have a model wherein they take money from someone (Opera) and give them the permission to not release the browser's code. Trolltech - the copyright owner - has _also_ given the general public which wishes to use QT under open licenses the right to do anything with QT as long as they comply with those terms. GPL v2 and v3 happen to be two such licenses Trolltech is happy to license under, to such users. Trolltech - the _owner_ - has the right to choose any license for distributing their code. _Once_ the code 'leaves their premises' under a certain license (say, GPL) - all further derivations will need to conform to that (and compatible) licenses. So, there's a 'restrictive tree' as you move down - with Trolltech at the root - as a way of 'visualizing' this. My take on the entire issue - 2 paise! Best wishes, jaju

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QT license - Was --> Re: The virtualbox license --- clarification from the FAQ --
by Ravindra Jaju 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:02 PM, jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote: > While your contention is correct (ref your second para), that is not > what i am getting at. What i am saying is that troltech's contention > that i cannot commercially distribute gpl software is rubbish. > Trolltech is implying that i cannot sell gpl software because their > licence is gpl + restrictions. I'd really like to see where Trolltech is making such a claim. And, let me quote from their file, found in their codebase (OPENSOURCE-NOTICE.TXT) <begin> If you, your company or your organization derive commercial benefit from Trolltech's products and do not wish to release your complete source code, you are required to purchase the appropriate number of commercial licenses. <end> Nothing here which says you can NOT commercially exploit the GPL version of QT. Only if you wish to hold back the source, you need to purchase appropriate commercial licenses from QT. What's missing? Best wishes, jaju

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Can somebody tell me how to get 3 years compatibility on ALL packages of LINUX and Windows on ONE machine
by Erach 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, What do I do ? I have a machine with 786 MB of RAM. If it was Windows, I could use ALL my purchased packages on it for 3 years --- till the Windows was replaced ------------- I assume. Now, LINUX supporters say, over 3000 packages free. So, Kubuntu LINUX 8.0.4 is installed on my machine in MAY. Do I download (I did not) 3 DVDS of entire possible packages with that release. CANONICAL guarantees SECURITY updates for 3 years. I tried installing UBUNTU 8.10 on my system. IT did not install. Then I thought ---- let me use VIRTUALBOX. The FAQ on virtualbox license says I can manually install it on as many machines as I want. (On SUN's commercial release too), or I can let each user manually install virtualbox themselves. So what am I suppossed to do: 1. Install Virtualbox on my LINUX machine (or sorry, is it Windows machine for Windows packages). 2. Install more memory for each version of LINUX and sub-version I wish to run. 3. Tell my developers to forever keep upgrading the software to the latest version (of what may I ask). Erach

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!
by debarshi.ray＠gmail.com 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

> Innovative and integrated User experience. As a developer, I still have not > come across development environment + documentation comparable to MSDN + > Visual Studio. Personally I find GNU Emacs to be a very good IDE. Otherwise did you have a look at Anjuta or KDevelop? What other development things did you look at? > I work on a C++ product that works on few platforms (Solaris, Win32/64, > Linux). Is this a GUI product. In that case Anjuta (for Gtk+) and KDevelop (for Qt) are good. For all other purposes Emacs is a good IDE, although I see hundreds of people achieve amazing results using a Vim/Shell/GDB/Valgrind/... combination, which can not really be called an IDE. :-) > Few things that Linux has innovated : > > 1. IPTABLES > 2. RaiserFS > 3. Live CD When I updated my AMD Athlon64 3200+ and VIA chipset based desktop to Fedora 10 x86_64, the kernel would crash 9 out of 10 times when I would try to boot it with a traceback indicating some problem with the driver for my Firewire PCI card. You know what, even then the boot process would recover, X would start, GDM would recover, and once I log into GNOME a nice little pop-up would come asking me that the kernel had encountered some problems and whether I would like to report this to kerneloops.org or not. Something called kexec and kdump at work behind the scenes. :-) Don't know whether other OSes have this or not, but then who cares? Cheers, Debarshi

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An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hi, A very good friend and old timer of this lug - Vihan Pandey sent this to me and some others, and he rightly thinks this should be sent to the lug-list. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_… == Dear Reader, Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users? Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003. At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising. But Wikipedia is more than a website. We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment. Your donation helps us in several ways. Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia -- making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. We are committed to growing the free knowledge movement world-wide, by recruiting new volunteers, and building strategic partnerships with institutions of culture and learning. Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia in history, written by volunteers. Like a national park or a school, we don't believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia. We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you. I invite you to join us: Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world. Thank you, Jimmy Wales == Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Slashdot: Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists
by Praveen A 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

We have raised our doubts about this earlier here. But it is real now. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/18/2047203 Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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on politeness
by Suhit Kelkar 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Dear fellow gnu/linners I'm a faithful reader of this list, and an avid user of gnu/linux. In the past this forum has helped me solve my doubts, given me the feeling of community, and even landed me an assignment or two, as I am a freelance journalist. That is partly why I usually go over each and every post regardless of what it says. I say this as someone who cares. Do we want to be remembered for vituperation, inconsiderate ranting, at times even name-calling? An honourable forum member had mentioned, rightly, a while ago, that everything we write is archived away (doubtlessly cleared too, eventually). What example are we setting, then? Aren't we representatives of a misunderstood community with few active ambassadors? Should we be quarrelling among ourselves? Don't we (or, some of us) have a mission, defined adversaries, allies? Should there be quibbling between allies then? Aren't we evangelists? Doesn't that put the obligation of decent behaviour on us? What ambassador acts out of petulance? What sage calls his congregation dolts, or idiots? What example should we be setting? Should we call others stupid, lazy, unthinking, when we were such ourselves when we started out, and perhaps still are? A champion of free speech, Salman Rushdie, once wrote to the effect that what we despise in ourselves we hate in others. Should we funnel our fury into a name-calling binge directed at our fellow users? I hope you will appreciate this communication for what it is-- an appeal to the better sensibilities within all of us, to end the hateful heated repartee we've been seeing over the past few months. Thank you. Regards Suhit Kelkar.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise & CAD
by Sachin Gopalakrishnan 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

> There can never be a replacement for the crap that is M$office. Even a > brainless moron cant write such crap. > There are at least two SUPERIOR alternatives Openoffice and Koffice. I use ubuntu 8.04 as my desktop at home but i need excel at my workplace on my laptop. I have tried using OO (not tried K Office) but the spreadsheet tool just does not seem to work well enough especially after i have used excel, OO seems so dated and clunky in contrast. I must admit i have not tried the latest version though. There is no real Autocad replacement, even if there are like BRL-CAD, Varicad etc we do not get candidates for them. We tried Virtualbox. did not work very well, especially cumbersome when it came to sharing files on a network using Samba. I know there are other linux options for virtualization available like parallels and vmware but we are not in a position to experiment as of now especially after virtualbox. We use an MS Access based system (third party )for excise, i haven't come across any package in linux as a replacement though am sure one could be built. > For how many users? > about 5 in one unit .. SG

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Sync Nokia E50 with Korganizer and Kontact
by Sanjay Singhvi 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Can anyone help me to sync a Nokia E50 phone with my laptop (Acer Aspire One - Kubuntu 8.10)? I need to do this by usb cable (since Aspire One does not have bluetooth inbuilt). Have checked out help on the net for bluetooth but there does not seem to be any for usb cable. When I tried to follow the tutorial on smoking linux for using pcsuite with Obextools, KMix crashed. (I have reported the bug to launchpad and it is now registered as 178063). Would appreciate any help. Thanking you in advance. Sanjay

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Kernel 2.6.27.8 = Goodbye IDE?
by Rony 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hello, I have twice compiled kernel 2.6.27.8 from source. During make it detects 5 problems but they don't look significant and 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' resolves this problem. However after booting from this kernel and its relative initrd.img, the process stops at devfs and kernel panic. The system is unable to read /lib/modules/[kernel]/modules.dep. IMHO this is basically an indicator of the ide drivers not working. During make menuconfig, I observed that the IDE modules can only be included as modules <M>, not 'in-built' in the kernel like <*>. In one section, the Help contents even mention that this option should not be used if your root system is on the IDE drive. This could mean that while the booting drive is not IDE ( means SATA ), the other drive detected after booting can be IDE. My system is an Intel 845 with IDE drives. Has anyone on this list successfully booted from 2.6.27.8 using an IDE HDD on an 845 chipset mobo? Do the new kernels mean goodbye to old hardware? Could this be one reason why K/Ubuntu 8.10 does not boot live into an old 845 chipset + IDE system? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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