Hi everyone. If I need to convert a JPEG file to a PDF file, and convert isn't cutting it. It was suggested to me that I could just embed the JPEG in a LaTeX file, and get a PDF that way. Does that sound reasonable?
@yo' Perhaps I try to come to the PhD defense too but I've some bureaucracy paper to do to explain what have done in one year and have to check it with my supervisors so it's not only me :/
@yo' And may be in conflict with other licenses too
@JosephWright Ah ok. I missed this part, sorry. Well, still the problem with GrindEq has a very easy answer, which cannot be really posted in the generic question...
Btw, a +300 answer to a -100 question. I just wowed.
@yo' The funny thing is that the Powers have a point. CC BY-SA is only suitable for code if you are wanting GPL-equivalence. The problem then is that there is a vocal subset of people who seem to think that SO is meant to be doing exactly that. The Powers though have not helped themselves by setting a date in advance and not sticking to an existing license in full for their suggestions.
They've also completely failed to address the 'what counts as code' thing
@JosephWright And they have failed to hear what we think. Almost like if "we want to hear what you think" means just "hear" as stated, and not "listen" as would be appropriate.
Part of the discussion about packaging some of the TikZ answers into a LaTeX package has centred on the issue of licensing the code. Contributions here are licensed under a CC license (see links at the bottom of the page) which isn't the best for software: even the people behind the CC licenses ...
@JosephWright I understand this. I don't like making licenses a big deal. I understand people who re-license their TeX.SE code as WTFPL. I also understand that choosing the good license is a problem. But they are not solving this problem.
@DavidCarlisle Getting people to give me prefixes continues to be an issue: I should do another sweep over TL (I think it is a sensible plan)
@yo' With the usual 'I have no legal background' warning, my take is that you can use MIT-licensed code in a LPPL package provided you note that those parts to which the MIT license applies
@yo' MIT only requires that you say where the code came from and that any reuse does the same
@yo' Of course, unless this is tested in court we don't know (see current tex-hyphen list discussion about re-licensing to avoid LPPL precisely because it's never been tested in that way, for example)
@DavidCarlisle Are you following the tex-hyphen business?
@JosephWright so can I. In the TeX's world, it's probably fine, despite important and unique, we are small and can handle a lot of things in "good will". For Google, this is not so quite the case.
@yo' Exactly. I guess if I were writing code in an area where the MIT license or similar is common, it would be likely my choice.
@yo' The irony with the 'legal challenge' business is that if you do a good job of the license and getting people to play fair then it will never happen ...
@JosephWright Possibly; like we use to choose LPPL... However, the way how they try to introduce it on SE is twisted round. First, double licensing, second, altered licence, third, complete lack of good explanation.
LPPL has one more problem: This open source license is not open source enough for some people out there.
@JosephWright just caught up on that thread, can't say I disagree with the LPPL description:-)
@yo' they have special status as so many other linux (and other) distributions use the debian open source guidelines as reference, so if debian had said latex wasn't open source then most linux distributions would have dropped it.
@JosephWright personally once we decided to give up on the "must rename" clause I'd have flipped to something more like CC0 (not that as it was probably before that was formalised) but just saying as little as possible but that isn't the way it turned out and after months of fractious discussion we were just glad to get anything that everyone would agree to.
@RomainPicot They've not looked at if for years and of course their position is that the GPL is the only way to go (really). Frank and Richard Stallman have I believed discussed things in the past.
@DavidCarlisle Yes, had I been involved I'd have gone that way (perhaps MIT rather than CC0 as the latter isn't formally a license, and there's the whole acknowledgement business)
@RomainPicot It's an organisation they don't always agree and it has gone on a long time so sometimes change their mind, Stallman has published before now saying LGPL was a mistake (and try to reclassify the first L as "lesser" from the original "Library" as he thinks libraries should be GPL)
@DavidCarlisle "Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free software developers need to make advantages for each other." -- Bullshit. And the reason why I've never believed anything that got out of GNU about licences is reasonable. This approach puts small independent developers in the worst possible situation; because they don't have the money, but they are "proprietary developers".
@yo' RMS has a certain rhetoric style and zeal that I don't always agree with, (and I do work for a proprietary software company:-) but has to be said that without that zeal open source software (and a lot of proprietary software) would not be where it is today.
@yo' we don't produce open source software (mostly) we sell a software library, but it's written (mosty) in emacs and initially developed (mostly) on linux the build system is gnu make, it's often compiled with gcc and so it goes. Even in proprietary software companies the entire software stack is held together by open source software.
@DavidCarlisle yes, and then (sorry, it's a stupid thing), you can use a GPL library, but only if you soft-link it, not hard-link. WHAT?! (I hope I got this right.)
@yo' Like I say, that's the 'big question': some people really don't like the idea that their work can be used without it also being open, others are not keen on the restrictions this imposes, so we have different licenses
@JosephWright some people at MS yes (but note MS just moved their entire .NET software stack from their own closed codeplex source control to git, so even there open source is used more than you might expect)
@yo' and of the open source unix like systems what proportion use linux and what proportion use BSD? Not everyone likes the way GPL spreads itself but it works (and worked well enough to kill off sun and other commercial unix vendors in the end)
@JosephWright yes but linux spread more. Partly that's about functionality but the fact that it uses a licence written with the explicit intention of forcing the spread of like minded software is not exactly a coincidence.
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@Johannes_B Maybe 200 of 3000 possible on the ship, but all are working here. While testing engines (speed, crash stop) and navigation (hard turn around, maximum inclination) others are welding and cutting and painting
@DavidCarlisle Like packages, then an option for a package, then more packages, then another option. Basically, not writing all the packages first and then all the options.
@Alenanno but some packages only allow options by the usepackage option, some have a setup command and some have both so hard to avoid mixing the loading and setup.
@DavidCarlisle The ones that are loaded in the \usepackage, I will load there of course. I'm talking about something like \addbibresource or similar commands.
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@egreg (Well, when I say 'no' what do I know, but I don't see any evidence of a likely release)
@egreg It's been there for ages (from the start?), and I don't think Hans has removed it
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@JosephWright well we all did but those two mostly I suppose
The first version we just sat round the table and tried to draft something coherent, 1.3 was just the process of months of combative edit suggestions so hard to say anyone really wrote it, to be fair.
@Alenanno Sorry, I am not in my best mood today. I agree it's the rules, but they decided to apply something that will simply break all of our previous (published) ads, so that's why I think this whole change is stupid. But I will redraw the ads, at least the new series.
@Alenanno -- if a manuscript file is submitted to a journal that uses latex for production, sometimes some loaded packages are compatible with the final product, and some packages are not. when the files are edited, if package-specific settings are adjacent to the \loadpackage, it's easier to avoid editing errors. (believe me, this saves a lot of time.)
@PauloCereda -- i think it's a bit silly, but have no objections.
what i do have a problem with, with the new shape of the ads, is that the logical (and official) format of the tugboat cover and tug logo is portrait, not landscape. and i don't think it's reasonable to change that, so the logical conclusion is that those can no longer be used as ads, which bothers me a great deal. any suggestions?
@barbarabeeton TB is at least squarish and does not contain the text as the integral part of the logo; something can be done about that I think. TUG is a bigger problem, the only thing I see viable is making it an ad, I mean, add text.
@DavidCarlisle -- but boring. on the cover for the first volume, the frame around the press was larger, and the "tugboat" overprinted the top of the press. what about moving the box in its current size to the bottom right corner (taking care not to chop off the front foot) and moving "tugboat" up to the top left corner? still have to deal with rules about frame.
@yo' -- on the right, my inclination is for it to read top-to-bottom, and that implies to me that it's sinking; not a good omen. so why not on the left, reading bottom-to-top?
@PauloCereda Well, so it's a familiar thing distinguishing from ads to other SE sites or commercial ads :-) on the other hand, I just have Gimp here with is not for drawing but such a frame is not hard
@PauloCereda But honestly said: I saw the frame requirement, which is new, very late, so I fixed the images quickly by adding the same frame to each. I guess I make them thinner soon and let you keep the bold frames :-)
@JosephWright I've seen some people making tuto online with some license to forbid any reproduction because they have some ads or they sell books based on it...
@egreg -- is that in reference to the unicode proposal regarding calligraphic vs. script? it's been suggested that i announce that here and on math.sx, but i'm waiting for a promised blog to appear, so that i can link it. in the meantime, would you help me craft a question for math.sx to ask for info from mathematicians on their use of these two fonts? (i'll send email.)
@egreg -- oh! i guess i should remember, but although i said in mail at the time that it would arrive "in a finite length of time", that's two months ago. (too much has happened over the last few months for me to remember something so lacking in controversy!) i hope it arrived in good condition, and that you will benefit as anticipated. thanks for the news.
@StefanKottwitz By the way, i cannot split topics on gL. Maybe ou can look at that at some point. It is the Topics need to have a title thing even though no umlauts are used.