Consumerium development wiki - User contributions [en]

LGPL

2004-01-15T07:03:28Z

Tin Filo: bah

'''LGPL''' stands for '''The Gnu Lesser Public License'''

The '''GNU Lesser General Public License''' is a software license designed as a compromise between the [[GPL|GNU General Public License]] and the simple permissive licenses of [[w:X Window System|X Window System]] and [[w:BSD|BSD]].
It places a [[copyleft]] restriction on individual source code files but does not copyleft the program as a whole.

The license is useful for software libraries; it was once called the GNU Library General Public License. The name change is likely more related to the FSF's [[propaganda]] aims than a concern for generality in projects that aren't libraries.

==External Link==
*[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html Text of the LGPL]
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XML dump

2004-01-15T06:56:57Z

Tin Filo: Correct falsehoods

[[Consumerium]] must be able to do an '''[[XML]] dump''' of the [[Content Wiki]] and [[Opinion Wiki]] at any time, if the material in them is [[GFDL]]:

The terms of the [[GFDL]] require certain access to [[source text]]. Any element of the [[GFDL text corpus]] must remain available in source form to anyone, and no page in it can be distributed without the URL of a source form that can be instantly retrieved by ''anyone''. This includes those "banned" by the [[sysop power structure]]. Mediawiki provides this with "edit page" or "view source" links on every page, and the [[Special:Export]] facility in recent versions.

Some individual wikis may provide bulk releases in various formats as well.

GFDL text corpus

2004-01-15T06:50:29Z

Tin Filo: Expanding perspective -- the whole world doesn't consist of Wikipedia

The '''GFDL text corpus''' is simply the [[text corpus]] that is under [[GFDL]]. The GFDL itself ensures that the original sources of such texts ''cannot'' control the disposition of the material (this is called the [[right to fork]]). Accordingly there are competing text bases in various places, such as the [[Internet Encyclopedia]] (which is run with the assistance of [[Wikipedia]] developers, and therefore suspect in the eyes of [[troll]]s) and the Consumerium R&D wiki - where [[moral purchasing]] and [[comprehensive outcome]] and [[transparency]] are going to be more intensely examined than at any other GFDL-based service.

[[Trolls]] seek to achieve independence of user interface and access the GFDL text corpus itself directly through any user interface. This they are doing at present through use of tools they do not share with non-trolls, so little can be said about these. If this fails they may use legal means against [[software imperialism]], e.g. GFDL clauses violated by [[Wikipedia]], libel laws violated by [[sysop power structure]] which have turned Wikipedia into a [[libel pit]]. A key problem is that most GFDL text is in a [[data jail]] inside [[MySQL dump]]s, which is not even close to satisfying the GFDL clauses requiring source text access. For instance, a decompression utility must be used to read the text.

Eventually, by a combination of legal and technical means, trolls will succeed, and the GFDL text corpus will be liberated and visible and editable as a whole.

GodKing

2004-01-15T06:26:56Z

Tin Filo: Must... purchase... GodKing...

#REDIRECT [[Off-topic]]

Sysop power structure

2004-01-15T06:21:06Z

Tin Filo: ot

#REDIRECT [[Off-topic]]

Off-topic

2004-01-15T04:56:05Z

Tin Filo: We got some of those

See also [[usurper]].

Please see [[Consumerium]] for things that are not off-topic.

Sysop vandalism

2004-01-15T04:55:12Z

Tin Filo: We don't need no sysops

#REDIRECT [[Off-topic]]

Off-topic

2004-01-15T04:54:43Z

Tin Filo: Hi!

Please see [[Consumerium]] for things that are not off-topic.

User:Tin Filo

2004-01-15T02:11:22Z

Tin Filo: Hi

Just a pointless hanger-on. Like certain other contributors here, I have no interest in this wiki's goals but am simply a [[usurper]] amusing myself.

A well-run wiki would promptly run me and those like me out of town; we'll see if things shape up.

Software imperialism

2004-01-15T01:59:50Z

Tin Filo: So true

'''Software imperialism''' is control of code, e.g. [[wiki code]], which is used to require data to conform to its expectations, e.g. a [[wikitext standard]]. This makes it all but impossible to create alternate software, and "locks in" a large number of users to a possibly inferior code base.

Microsoft Windows, Office and [[mediawiki]] are clear examples of this phenomenon. The developers of both have strongly resisted any standardization that would allow any outside developers, much more competent as a rule, to compete with them to "manage" the vast [[text corpus]] stored using these user interfaces.

The most vicious offenders are writers of [[free software]] who try to destroy all competitors by offering their programs free of charge. By allowing anyone who cares to do so to examine and reuse the program's source code and parsing functions, they hope to eliminate the possibility that anyone will ever do so, permanently locking customers ([[slave]]s) into lifelong servitude.

Please, ''please'' stop this horrible menace! Find every copy of mediawiki and shred it now ''before it's too late and we're all contaminated by its communistic evil!''

Developer usurpation

2004-01-15T01:50:57Z

Tin Filo: Clarify

'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is a pheomonen in [[real estate]] in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of [[eminent domain]] to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.

[[Corruption]] and [[bribery]] are sometimes involved.