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reaching 100th page

If you have a look at Special:Statistics, we now have 99 pages! Great! Without all your effort, this would not be the case. Who is going to create the 100th page?

Thanks to all the authors,

pg

I win! :) Page 100 is the Context 2004.10.28 details page for the latest release. Taco

There is not much I can offer as a reward... What about a 'lifelong' free email address at contextgarden.net? --pg :-)

I'm not quite sure life-long is long enough. It seems a term of about 70 years post-mortem with possible extension is the standard these days. ;-)

Hi! What's the license of ConTexT? It's not readily apparent from the wiki or from the company web page. BBB 15:49, 6 Nov 2004 (CET)

Hello, the license of ConTeXt is GPL (GNU General Public Licence). It is stated in mreadme.pdf pg

Actually, it says "in the spirit of the GNU general public license". This made me suspiciuos, since if it were available under GPL, then why not say so plainly. The sentence as written could imply that it's not formally GPL, but it's "in the spirit", i.e. inspired by GPL. Also, I couldn't find the license text in the distribution. Anyway, that's a suggestion for improvement. BBB 13:55, 7 Nov 2004 (CET)

see the mailinglist archive http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20040628.160854.0c05d1d0.html . If this doesn't help you, please discuss this issue on the list

Well, i can understand the 'spirit' of those gnu licences, but the gory details are beyond me, so that's why i've written down things my way; it permits me to add my own spirit, which boils down to: use it any way you want, as long as you don't mess around with the files in a way that it backfires on me or users.--Hans 17:38, 9 Nov 2004 (CET)

Actually, I believe ConTeXt should be under some sort of Artistic License or even the LaTeX license. The GPL is not particularly suited (In fact, I believe that it is not suited for most software that *is* released under it).

The problem: Suppose H.Dumb changes a few core macros in syst-gen.tex and redistributes this new context distro. It turns out that there is a bug in the macros by Dumb that (say) makes TeX fail on documents that contain more that 100 pages. He redirects users to Pragma-ADE for ConTeXt support because he doesnt want to do be bothered with it. Therefore, the support calls will appear on ntg-context, and ConTeXt as a whole gets bad publicity.

Under GPL, there is no way to stop H.Dumb from doing what he is doing. Even worse: the GPL does not even *allow* an additional clause that says that H. Dumb cannot do this sort of thing. The implication is (in my opinion) that you should *not ever* release anything under GPL that you (personally) feel responsible for or are attached to. Taco