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Shog9 wrote: Putting code in the public domain is pretty much just begging a crappy code-only site to come along and rip it off. If an author wants to do that, fine, but i'd hate to see the site mandate it.
I agree, I used the wrong terminology, what I mean is that copyright is a given and a good thing, that a complete application attached to an article should certainly be licenseable any way the author sees fit, but I don't for a second think it's ok to place a license of any kind on the contents of the article or small snippets of code in the article itself.
Judging by the votes my post got either there are not a lot of commercial developers here, people misunderstand my original post or I'm increasingly hanging out at the wrong site and judging by the silence from the powers that be over this issue I'm increasingly leaning towards the feeling I shouldn't be hanging out here any more.
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John Cardinal wrote: Judging by the votes my post got
...you should have had me write it for you.
Actually, I suspect you were voted down because of the PD confusion. It probably didn't help that the article you linked to (IconLib) seems to have some confusion as to its license (AFAIK, the author states BSD-style, but links to a CC license, which isn't quite the same thing and is hard to understand when applied to code). I don't think (from reading the article) that he's trying to be troublesome with it, but such are the pitfalls of licensing. And, for this site to be useful while preserving authors' copyrights, some sort of licensing is absolutely necessary!
I don't think for a moment that the majority here are in favor of onerous licenses. As far as commercial development goes, the GPL becomes troublesome for "software as a product" development (which i believe is what you mean when you use "commercial"). And explicit non-commercial licenses are pretty much a PitA all around (but i've seen these most often from commercial developers looking to use an article as advertising for their product). Because of this, i really like your idea for a tag+filtration system: combined with a limited list of licensing options for those posting code, it could make this mess a whole lot more manageable.
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John Cardinal wrote: any article we submit here is public domain.
I see from some of the replies that you've had to clarify this point. I guess when used properly Public Domain should be capitalized. At any rate, the basic statement is still valid:
"any article we submit here is available to the public"
and the public is both great and unwashed.
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The "Message Removed" bit of functionality is absolutely brilliant.
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I especially like the fact that it prevents people responding to it.
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I was replying to a Lounge post that was subsequently deleted (before I submitted my reply). CP informed me an error had occured and asked me to retry the operation. Clicking the retry link displayed the error message "You cannot post to this forum". Obviously not a biggie, but it looks like the error handling could be less generic.
Also, I thought deleting a post no longer physically removed it but just rendered it as "Deleted"? It seems deleted posts are indeed being deleted and causing thread rendering gremlins.
/ravi
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Sometimes the error messages are not related to your specific operation. Sometimes the server just plain dies.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Sometimes the server just plain dies.
And we have a nice little service for it. Maybe some flowers. A choir or two.
the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I may be thinking wrong, but I thought that the messages in Question Time used to come from both article responses and forum posts? I realize most forum posts are answers, so maybe forum posts were removed?
Is it possible to add just the beginning message of new forum threads? or, since Question Time rotates pretty quick already, maybe it could be a seperate box?
Regards,
>>>-----> MikeO
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Question time shows new questions posted to both articles and the programming forums
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Are programming forums a subset of the message boards?
>>>-----> MikeO
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Yes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Looks like Jean Edwidge Luxama[^] deleted a post in the C++ forum, but only the text of it was deleted, check the post just after Image compression?[^] thread.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Another idea I had is to have an article to PDF conversion so people can download articles for future use. Is there any chance that something like this could be implemented in CP articles?
Thanks.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Have your tried saving the file to MHT?
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Although it would be nice if CP did this automatically have you tried using the "Print Article" link to remove ads and then use a printer like CutePDF to print to a pdf file.
Not as nice I know but workable all the same, I've done this in the past to save articles.
I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.
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Ed.Poore wrote: Although it would be nice if CP did this automatically have you tried using the "Print Article" link to remove ads and then use a printer like CutePDF to print to a pdf file.
Yes, but I just thought that an automatic PDF creator would be nice.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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I agree, maybe if someone put together an article with it then it might be implemented...
I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.
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There are PDF printers too, I guess.
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I was thinking, how about having a CodeProject Technology and/or Electronics forum? That way people can discuss problems with they're electronics or just general technology problems (software, drivers etc.)
Does anyone else think that this would be a good idea?
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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You can have then when I get a PHP forum!;P
Brad
Australian
-CAUTION-
The previous statement may contain traces of PHP, and by reading this statement you negate the right to vote me down.
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Bradml wrote: You can have then when I get a PHP forum!
That's a great idea! Maybe a Perl/PHP forum.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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*Opens book of generic excuses given to me by Chris*
"The Code Project is orientated more towards Microsoft technologies, we try to stay focused" (Lame excuse! I could moderate the forum and do all the focusing)
And also Perl is a waste of a forum.
Brad
Australian
-CAUTION-
The previous statement may contain traces of PHP, and by reading this statement you negate the right to vote me down.
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Bradml wrote: The Code Project is orientated more towards Microsoft technologies, we try to stay focused
Yeah, the Soapbox stays really focused! And besides, you could just get rid of the Web Development forum (HTML, CSS and Javascript really aren't THAT hard), and just have a PHP forum.
Bradml wrote: And also Perl is a waste of a forum.
Not if it's merged with another subject (i.e. PHP). And since AJAX is getting bigger, what about an AJAX forum?
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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