From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 15:43: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDAD37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-6.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BBE43E88 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:43:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rens.emmanuel@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.69) by mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D4D017E5741; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:43:03 +0100 Received: from wanadoo.fr (80.11.84.61) by mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DD3EB7600183F98; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:43:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD82B9A.7020902@wanadoo.fr> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:51:54 +0100 From: rens.emmanuel@wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021108 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what does "open source" mean ? References: <20021116010252.97C8937B404@hub.freebsd.org> <3DD6ADA6.9040106@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many thanks for this insight, I know that many web sites provide informations , but toomuch information does not always help knowledge . I was hoping to get documentation on FreeBSD, as well made as the Handbook, but on the theorical side. For ee, since my first message I found by myself (!) the location of the source. I was thinking of recompiling it since I had problems when using ee from the console, and with sysinstall too. I've seen a question in this list about similar problems with pine. I suppose they both could be related to vi - so I'm impatient to read an answer to this question too. For the suffixes I found a Linux man entry that describes all the suffixes at http://www.rt.com/man/suffixes.7.html. I'll try your bookmarks right now ! Best regards Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >There are several definitions of "open source". Assuming understanding >of the word "source", I like "software for which the source code is >available for reading at no cost beyond communication costs. It is >almost always proprietary, requiring payments of licensing fees or other >considerations for certain uses or being restricted from certain uses >altogether. It almost always may be republished as-is without payment. > >Many people (often those who write it as "Open Source") like to add the >proviso that the source be licensed for execution (after translation), >derivation, and publishing of derivatives, for no payment other than >the cross-licensing of the deriver's copyrights under similar terms. > >Not all Unix systems are open source. IBM and HP (and some others ) >are still supporting their Unix systems, but I think they're hoping >to phase them out. Sun Microsystems is the main player, these days. > >I install the complete sources (using "cvsup" as documented in the >FreeBSD Handbook), then find the directory with the source code ( >eg, "locate -i ee.c" found it in /usr/src/usr.bin/ee/), enter that >directory, change the code, and run "make". IIRC, it may be then >be installed with "make install". > > >I'm afraid you'll just have to pick them up as you go or ask about a few >at a time. ".so" is "Shared Object (code libary)" (like DLL?); ".h" is >"include" header files for C/C++ code; > >Any WWW searcher will find lots of info at all levels; here's one intro >http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unix.html >Be sure to spend a few hours exploring www.freebsd.org if you're going >to try FreeBSD. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message