Modern Pragmatist posted:

I have an open source software licensing question. I have some software that I use that provided a certain level of functionality. This software was based on the Modified BSD license, and I'm free to modify and distribute it as I please.

I have added some functionality to the software and now want to make my changes freely available. Obviously, part of the license is that I must distribute the original license file along with my modified software. What is the best way to go about doing this?

I can obviously include the original license file (which contains the creator's name and copyright statement) but do I need to create an additional license file to cover my modifications and perhaps add my own copyright line? Or do I just have to include the original license file since I didn't create it myself and thus can't include modified copyright information?

I have searched around but hadn't found any solid information about how to go about doing this.

Modern Pragmatist posted:

I have added some functionality to the software and now want to make my changes freely available. Obviously, part of the license is that I must distribute the original license file along with my modified software. What is the best way to go about doing this?

ExcessBLarg! posted:

Unless there's good reason to do otherwise, it's simplest for everyone to release your modifications under the same license as the original software. The exception is that, for three-clause and (especially) four-clause BSD licenses, I might license any source files solely authored by you under a two-clause BSD license since the other variants are annoying.

Now, the original software should have a copyright statement and a copy of the license at the top of every source file. For any file that you substantially modify, add your copyright statement underneath the original, before the license text. If you're adding new files, copy the existing license with your copyright statement alone.

However, if the original software doesn't actually have copyright statements and license text in each source file, then it gets complicated. The least-effort thing on your part would be to just add a copyright statement in the "license file", but then in absence of revision control history, it's not exactly clear where your modifications lie. If the software is particularly important, I would contact the original author to get each source file correctly licensed first, otherwise whatever.

Sedro posted:

At a glance, it looks like you're mutating the list as you iterate through it. Each time you remove an item you'll skip an item in the next iteration. Try instead constructing a new list with the items you want to include and return it from your function.

Edit: No, that's not the issue. You'll have to fix the code you posted though because first_initial_name is not defined.

Modern Pragmatist posted:

It's nothing particularly important and likely won't be used by too many people.

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

HTML5 question. I made a button tag with draggle set to true:

code:

<button draggable='true'>My button</button>

Isn't that enough to work in iOS? Because it doesn't, but works on my OS X browsers Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

HTML5 question. I made a button tag with draggle set to true:

code:

<button draggable='true'>My button</button>

Isn't that enough to work in iOS?

Note: This technology is supported only on desktop versions of Safari. For iOS, use DOM Touch, described in “Handling Events” (part of Safari Web Content Guide) and Safari DOM Additions Reference.

Newf posted:

Does the act of creating methods that do nothing except call some other method have a name?

code:

class foo
{
 public void fizz() { /* do things */ }
}

class bar
{
 private foo myFoo;

 public void barVerb()
 {
  // do things
  fuzz();
  //do things
 }

 private void fuzz()
 {
  myFoo.fizz();
 }
}

I'm guessing that this would be considered an anti-pattern? Specifically, there isn't any reason for the fuzz() method to exist, and it could be replaced in the above barVerb() method with a call to myFoo.fizz(), which would remove a layer of indirection for the reader of the code.

Bognar posted:

Drag and drop with HTML is in a terrible state. The best cross-browser way I've found to make something draggable is to use <a href="#" draggable='true' class='drag'>--content--</a> and place whatever you want to drag inside. Use the drag class to remove default link styling.

Newf posted:

Does the act of creating methods that do nothing except call some other method have a name?

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

That's too bad.

The <a> tag doesn't seem to work iOS, though it works in the OS X browsers. I think I'll just need to make [a] separate implementation that handles touches as pokeyman describes, which is probably different on Android.

Bognar posted:

Using the touch and mouse events is fairly well supported (it's how jQuery UI does drag and drop), but the performance isn't nearly as good as native drag and drop. There are a few libraries that handle this for you if you don't want to have a dependency on jQuery, though I can't remember them off the top of my head.

Strong Sauce posted:

What's the most ideal way to load a VM with Windows Desktop environment? AWS/Azure seem to offer some Windows VMs but they seem to all be Enterprise/Windows Server VMs.

All I'm looking for is to load a Windows VM, do some tasks, and then exit the VM.

belle of my ballz posted:

Anybody here have experience with either OpenBravo or OpenERP
How easy is it to find modules and solid coders
How hardcore is the installation, is it worth paying someone
Any reasons why I should run away?

KoRMaK posted:

I have a Ruby on Rails app that is using google maps 3 api. In development, when I view the map from my iphone using chrome, all the infowindows show up. When I push to heroku the infowindows suddenly stop showing.

So, infowindows work in development, not in production. I looked through what I could on google, and there's nothing that worked. If I zoom out to a really high level on the map they suddenly show up. At a closer zoom level, I can see them being drawn, but then they disappear.

Why would this work locally in dev rather than heroku?

gariig posted:

Azure can do that. Just create a VM and you can pick one from the Gallery which has Windows 8.1 Enterprise and Windows 7 SP1. There's a 30 day trial which gives you like $150 in Azure fun bucks. I haven't tried this with AWS and their desktop virtualization stuff

KoRMaK posted:

I have a Ruby on Rails app that is using google maps 3 api. In development, when I view the map from my iphone using chrome, all the infowindows show up. When I push to heroku the infowindows suddenly stop showing.

So, infowindows work in development, not in production. I looked through what I could on google, and there's nothing that worked. If I zoom out to a really high level on the map they suddenly show up. At a closer zoom level, I can see them being drawn, but then they disappear.

Why would this work locally in dev rather than heroku?

KoRMaK posted:

Is there a reputable free way to get a ssl cert?

KoRMaK posted:

Is there a reputable free way to get a ssl cert?

KoRMaK posted:

Is there a reputable free way to get a ssl cert?

JawnV6 posted:

You're trying to bolt this onto an existing system where people enter information? This can't just get baked into the existing application? That's a completely understandable situation, just making sure I understand.

Take a look at Sikuli: http://www.sikuli.org/

It's not a perfect fit, but you could probably bang something functional out of it.

bobua posted:

edit: well gently caress that's cool ^^^

That could certainly be done, but sounds like it needs to be done on the forms side. If you really had to do it on a screenshot it goes from something someone could do in a pdf form in a few minutes to some hefty image recognition work.

If you're not a programmer at all and your first program is image recognition you're going to have a bad time.

Jewel posted:

There is but you have to use [code=<LANGUAGE>]

fletcher posted:

If you're not even willing to pay money for a cert how much are you investing in the rest of your security?

I thought most registrars give you a 1 year cert if you buy a domain anyways.

krk posted:

At least StartSSL offers free Class 1 certificates for free.

Using this service was discussed in the recent Ars' article http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/securing-your-web-server-with-ssltls/ .