[TIP] Result protocol

[Michael Foord]

Jesse Noller wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On or about 2009 Apr 12, at 10:34 AM, Jesse Noller indited:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> If we all want to interoperate, and the protocol is covered by GPL?
>>>>         
>>> Personally, anything I do will be under a BSDish license. Business
>>> reasons.
>>>       
>> Oddly, I cannot find any kind of license info on either the YAML main
>> page (http://www.yaml.org/) nor on the current draft (http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.html
>> ) nor the one before that (which is what PyYaml supports)...
>>     
>
> Let me correct something, I was specifically talking about the subunit  
> license, not the concept of the protocol spec. Sorry if I wasn't clear  
> - I don't know that I've seen a spec under a software license, but it  
> wouldn't surprise me.
>   

In fact I'm not sure that as a 'collection of facts' a protocol itself 
would even be licensable in the first place.

FWIW the GPL license on subunit would also stop me using, re-using or 
contributing to it.

Michael

> Jesse
>
>   
>> (the links also look fairly broken, you can't download the 1.1 spec
>> from http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/ because those links all point to
>> 'current' which is 1.2).
>>
>> I've looked at it a bit and it seems, in the simplest form, only
>> slightly different from Pandokia's format.
>> Pandokia uses '=' and YAML uses ':'. Pandokia uses a leading '.' for a
>> continued line, YAML uses indentation for aggregation. Still need to
>> dig into YAML more but now that I've gotten a taste of it, its not so
>> bad. :)
>>
>> Need to look at your example in more detail too.
>>
>> -Doug
>>
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