methods for license conversion

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu Jul 5 06:30:57 UTC 2007


Hi Pavel,

great work!

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:15 +0200, you wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have prepared an image with small code base that is ready for
> license conversion and is able to load a sequence of packages up to
> working Morphic system.
>
> Downloads: http://comtalk.net/public/pub/KernelImage/20070704/

Is the image supposed to do something (i.e. offering a command line like  
your previous unnumbered kernel images)? I started it up on win xp and it  
didn't erase its desktop background nor anything else except eating  
100%[TM] CPU cycles :(

/Klaus

> - it contains 2919 methods
> - 1029 methods have no initials of the author hasn't subscribed the
> license conversion agreement so we have to rewrite them
> (http://comtalk.net/public/pub/KernelImage/20070704/authors.ods)
> - it is able to condense changes
> - it is able to evaluate unimplemented calls
> (http://comtalk.net/public/pub/KernelImage/20070704/info.txt)
> - it is able to print all objects and generate the image map in HTML
> form with reverse references
> (http://comtalk.net/public/pub/KernelImage/20070704/ImageMap.zip)
> - it has still 2MB (that's why we need the image analysis tool ;-)
> - it is able to load SUnit and run basic set of  tests without failures
> - platform specific code only for Linux
>
> I should point out that if I'm talking about possibility of loading
> Morphic into this image, I'm not talking about future or theoretical
> plans but about real possibility supported by successful experiments
> ;-)
>
> I think that we should define exactly what the term 'rewrite a method'
> means and find some people that want to help with license conversion
> of the image.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pavel
>
>





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