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Dynamic

12:03 AM

@Yannis :P

@WorldEngineer Arabs are the worst when it comes to coffee.... I would know, I am one :)

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Dynamic

5:02 AM

I like to go through old questions at night and edit the ones that need fixed... should I be doing that?

If yes, is it OK to "spam" the front page a bit with edits since it's kind of inactive at this point?

gnat

5:36 AM

@YannisRizos voting reversal script did it work; I flagged one of the mis-voted posts as you advised

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user20683

4:51 PM

Rubber Ducky, you're the one. Asking questions is lots of fun...Rubber Ducky I wish they'd use you too...

Yannis Rizos

9:10 PM

@Dynamic Of course it's ok, just don't bump more than 5-10 questions.

Dynamic

9:26 PM

@Yannis Alright cool thanks

Jay Bazuzi

10:20 PM

Hey, I have some followup to this question, hoping someone can help:

Q: How is Pash licensed?

Pash is an open source reimplementation of Windows PowerShell. It was released in 2008, and has been idle since then. I would like to take up the mantle. It's not clear what the license is. There is no LICENSE file or license details in the code. The only reference to a license I can find is o...

I'm forking Pash and want to get this license stuff sorted out before I devote a bunch of time to the project.

1. Should I create a LICENSE file with the text of both GPL and BSD licenses in it? Or two different LICENSE files?

2. Should I put a copyright/license comment at the top of each source file with both licenses in it?

Hmm, now that I've asked here, I think I know how to write it as a general-interest question on the main site.

Q: How to document a dual open source license?

If a project is dual-licensed GPL & BSD, should there be one LICENSE file with the text of both licenses? Or two separate files, one for each license? And I think I should put a copyright/license comment at the top of each source file. How should that comment indicate the dual-licensed statu...

open-source gpl bsd-license

Jay Bazuzi

10:50 PM

I have another question, that I don't think is general enough for the main site, though.

After Pash was released in 2008, someone else made a fork of it under the MIT license.

I think normally you'd have to get special permission to do that - to go from GPL+BSD to MIT.

As far as I can tell, he was working closely with the original create of Pash, so he may have had that permission.

He also wrote the copyright messages as:

I'm not sure who exactly is included in "Pash Development Team"

Since I'm not completely certain that he had permission to use change the license to MIT, I worry that if I pick up the changes, I could run in to trouble later.

I have tried emailing both the original creator of Pash and the person who did the fork, but they haven't responded.

Dynamic

11:38 PM

It seems like we get the bulk of the days bad questions from 2:00 am UTC- 2:00 pm UTC... oddly enough, and this gets worse on weekends

user20683

11:49 PM

@Dynamic some places work a 6 day week

user20683

or even 7 days

user20683

many of these same places also speak dubious English

user20683