Roland Weigelt - All Comments

re: Notepad3 vs. Notepad2, or The Spirit of Open Source

WeigeltRo — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:16:42 GMT

@Anders: As I wrote, in theory there's nothing wrong about this as the licensing conditions are met. And I guess things would be a bit different if Notepad2 was really greatly enhanced.

re: Notepad3 vs. Notepad2, or The Spirit of Open Source

Anders — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:48:49 GMT

the notepad3 guy didn't do anything wrong, he just followed the gpl.

re: Notepad3 vs. Notepad2, or The Spirit of Open Source

Mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:04:24 GMT

Notepad2 is one of the first apps that get installed wherever I go. Florian has done a great job (something MS hasn't been able to do) so it is a bit unfortunate for this to happen...hopefully the developer(s) of the forked project will reconsider their move and name their fork of Notepad2 to something distinguishable....

re: GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer in Koblenz: Folien online

John Doe — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:49:45 GMT

Grossartig, danke! :)

re: GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer in Koblenz: Folien online

WeigeltRo — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:36:09 GMT

Ich habe die Folien nun auch im PPT-Format hochladen (als ZIP, die PPT-Datei hat 3,11MB).

re: GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer in Koblenz: Folien online

John Doe — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:14:58 GMT

Gibt es das auch im alten PPT-Format? Zuhause habe ich nur OpenOffice und in der Firma können und dürfen wir keine neue Software installieren (PPTX-Viewer, da nur Office 2003 vorhanden).

re: Vortrag "GUI-Design für Nicht-Designer" in Koblenz

Andre — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:26:58 GMT

Hallo Roland,

vielen Dank an dieser Stelle noch ein Mal. War wirklich ein toller Vortrag. Der Besuch des Treffens hat sich absolut gelohnt.

André

re: Usage of GhostDoc in Large Corporations

WeigeltRo — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:54:42 GMT

Hi Kris,

this was not about re-distribution. I have received requests for allowing the re-destribution of GhostDoc e.g. on a magazine CD in the past and I had little problem doing the (very little) paperwork involved.

By the way, the situation has been resolved in the meantime. After declining to sign the two pages of legal verbage, the company managed to reduce the whole text down to *one* important sentence - that I should not use the name of the company to endorse or promote GhostDoc. No problem with that: I don't mention the name, end of story.

re: Usage of GhostDoc in Large Corporations

Kris Brixon — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:37:45 GMT

Assuming you are referring to non re-distribution? Otherwise you are stating that you do want to sign something in the license.

I understand your feelings to not expose yourself anymore than necessary. My mom (a nurse) asked me to write a drug dosage calculation program and I told her no. The hospital would have to release me of potential liability if the calculations were ever wrong.

I wonder if there is a standard freeware license that you could use (like they have for open source) that corporate lawyers understand and can approve for use. I know where we work that the lawyers have to approve the use of a Open Source Software based on how the program will be used and what license it has. We can not just download anything and start using it. We do know a few standard licenses that we can use any software that has that license and not get approval.

re: Usage of GhostDoc in Large Corporations

Frank Rizzo — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:01:19 GMT

Here is a solution for individual developers. Just install the plug in and use it. No need to seek anything from legal. That way, no bureaucracy to deal with.