Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Karlsson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty C (was Re: naughty Pascal) Date: 13 Jan 2026 14:21:45 GMT Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <10judtj$3eijl$2@dont-email.me> <10juqpa$3i6m5$1@dont-email.me> <20260110184115.4782eb44@coppelia.commodorejohn.com> <10jv43q$3kkhi$2@dont-email.me> <36F8R.627474$3Sk8.623325@fx46.iad> <10k2n44$29ube$6@dont-email.me> <10k31ru$2d8ro$3@dont-email.me> <10k3jn6$2josb$2@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net 6gaZ8/1SInCETW5zdTIYewFqy8lZMxtIjObBN3WEkOCfMPMRqG Cancel-Lock: sha1:nrJEXC423JFh8NveClU/LjlYxj8= sha256:sw5Uw06Fxk8UQpEx3ri/s9Injg96HdY0FYOSyyVS39w= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81073 alt.folklore.computers:233614 On 2026-01-13, rbowman wrote: > On 13 Jan 2026 06:31:43 GMT, Niklas Karlsson wrote: > >>> How many other FOSS projects use the MIT, Apache, Zero Clause BSD, or >>> other permissive licenses? >> >> I don't know offhand, but I've always been under the impression the >> licenses you mentioned are all relatively widespread. > > Precisely. Raymond's argument was restrictive licenses would deter FOSS > development. Fair enough, but to go back to where this subthread came from, does that make him a marketroid? Or just an advocate, maybe agitator if you're feeling dramatic? "Marketroid" makes me think of something rather more pernicious than just copyleft vs. copycenter (to reference the Jargon File, speaking of ESR). Niklas -- In Python, I'd model the CSV row as a class with a method that deserialised an array-of-string, with appropriate validation and coercion to a known static type. And then I'd get half way through before going "fuck it" and finishing it off in Perl. -- Peter Corlett