March 2006 Archive

OpenWrt has officially terminated Sveasoft's license citing blatant violation of the GPL. For more details go to OpenWrt's forum: Unbelievable. It's getting quite hilarious. For example you can "learn" that the GPL is derived directly from "the economic and political theories of Karl Marx".

In general it is so sad to see such abuses. It is not hard to comply with the license. If you don't like it, don't use the GPL'd software in your product. It is as simple as that.

It is okay to use the GPL'd software in commercial products, but you have to offer the GPL'd sources, and if you modified them, you have to publish your modifications as well. If parts of your product are proprietary, isolated, and not based on the GPL'd code, keep them to yourself.

And don't forget to acknowledge the work of others even if the license doesn't force you to do it — it is the common courtesy, which should be followed by any reasonable human being.

I found some time to finalize my pictures and notes on PyCon 2006. I tried my best to identify people in my pictures. Now you can see their names and links to their blogs. I added links to official descriptions of their talks, as well as to excellent detailed notes of some talks by Steve Holden. I advise to visit his blog, because he has notes on some talks I didn't attend.

If you want to relive your PyCon 2006 memories (or implant new ones), you can do it here. While you can find blog addresses in pictures, I updated my master blog roll as well.

I want to thank Andrew Kuchling, Steve Holden, Django team (Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Matt Croydon), Ian Bicking, and all participants for the great time I had at PyCon.

And now for some pictures I like: