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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:43 on Monday 15 November 2010, Mike |
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> Edenfield did opine thusly: |
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>> On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of |
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>>> functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger |
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>>> doesn't work. That mostly happens when the disk is nearly full. |
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>> Since we're *way* off topic as it is: |
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>> mydefrag isn't LGPL, just freeware, but I did notice this on the |
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>> jkdefrag site: |
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>> "The executables are released under the GNU General Public License, and |
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>> the sources are released under the GNU Lesser General Public License." |
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>> Is that even possible? |
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> It's possible, as someone did it ... :-) |
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> It's not valid though, and it's nonsensical. If they give you binaries per |
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> GPL, then they must make the sources available. They already make the sources |
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> available per LGPL, so now they are dual-licensed. If you choose to accept |
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> them under GPL, then you may only compile and redistribute them under GPL. If |
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> you choose to accept them under LGPL, compile them and redistribute them, then |
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> other non-GPL software can link to them per the terms of the LGPL. |
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> So which is it? GPL? LGPL? Both? |
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> Sounds like someone on that project has a gigantic misunderstanding on how the |
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> licenses work. |
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OK. I took a nap and it seems everyone on the list wanted to chime in. |
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lol This is one reason I posted here. I knew I would get at least a |
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few replies. Just picking one to reply to so not pointing at Alan here. |
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First, the drive is not full. It has about 30% or so left. I think the |
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virus broke something and I don't have the OS media to reinstall. If I |
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had my way, that puter would have Linux and a root password that only I |
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know. |
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Second, it has not been kept up to date for sure. They are little kids, |
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oldest is getting about old enough to understand how to maintain things |
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tho. |
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Third, I'm not going to go to to much trouble with this thing and trying |
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to get it back to shiny new. If it doesn't work to their liking, I'll |
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tell them to get a CD/DVD with the install on it or I can put Linux on |
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it for free. Let them decide. |
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One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. If I had |
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the CD/DVD to install from, I would do just that. Heck, I would have |
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done that right after I saw AVG being so out of date. I wouldn't have |
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even turned the thing off. I would have put in the CD, pulled the plug |
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and booted the CD and reinstalled. |
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The program mydefragger seemed to work pretty well. It is done and I am |
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running it again just to be sure. I'll see if it reboots any faster |
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now. That should tell me if it helped any at all. I don't think it |
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could hurt for sure. |
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Thanks for the replies. Going to download one of those defraggers that |
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someone mentioned and save it for a rainy day. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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