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PlainName:
On a PC I have OpalCalc floating around. It is similar to SpeedCrunch but a quick comparison suggests OpalCalc is a little better. For instance:

100 miles in km - 160.9344km in OpalCalc, not calculable in SpeedCrunch (doesn't do km)

£100 in $ - $131.57 in OpalCalc, invalid expression in SpeedCrunch

But I like the SpeedCrunch bit display, so swings and roundabouts...

OpalCalc webby
newbrain:

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--- Quote from: Berni on August 18, 2020, 09:59:26 am ---SpeedCrunch

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Would you look at that! It's GPL'ed AND it's available for Windows and Linux. Which means that it will be available for free, forever and run on whatever OS I choose (or am forced to use by work). Thanks!

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Yes free forever! 75 years after all the authors die that is. Each dead programmer brings our grandchildren closer to freedom!

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What are you on about?
If you are conflating copyright with licensing, remember that copyright is the foundation for all licenses.
It is copyright that allows authors to give their software a free license or even to renounce their rights if they so want.
iteratee:

--- Quote from: newbrain on August 23, 2020, 06:38:13 am ---
--- Quote from: iteratee on August 22, 2020, 09:15:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: duckduck on August 19, 2020, 12:31:07 am ---
--- Quote from: Berni on August 18, 2020, 09:59:26 am ---SpeedCrunch

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Would you look at that! It's GPL'ed AND it's available for Windows and Linux. Which means that it will be available for free, forever and run on whatever OS I choose (or am forced to use by work). Thanks!

--- End quote ---
Yes free forever! 75 years after all the authors die that is. Each dead programmer brings our grandchildren closer to freedom!

--- End quote ---
What are you on about?
If you are conflating copyright with licensing, remember that copyright is the foundation for all licenses.
It is copyright that allows authors to give their software a free license
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That was meant as an obviousish trolling remark but no it doesn't conflate.  Copyright gives authors the right to control the distribution of their works. A license allows the author to specify constraints or permissions on the ways works may be distributed. An author only needs to do that because copyright grants all rights to the author by default. Others have no rights unless they are given. (Grossly simplified overview, of course.) No need for debate, I know this subject. :)

--- Quote ---or even to renounce their rights if they so want.
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This depends on juristiction, but in at least the U.S. and many others, absolutely not. You cannot renounce your rights and producing even a roughly equivalent effect by way of license can be difficult. Ask in p.m. if questions. Appologies for thread derailment. :palm:
iteratee:

--- Quote from: blueskull on August 23, 2020, 10:21:45 am ---
--- Quote from: iteratee on August 23, 2020, 10:18:22 am ---This depends on juristiction, but in at least the U.S. and many others, absolutely not. You cannot renounce your rights and producing even a roughly equivalent effect by way of license can be difficult.

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How about CC0 and public domain, or do WTF you'd like license?

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Yes, CC0 in particular is specifically intended to deal with this and they have some good writeups on how that works. Its purpose is to deal with the fact that there is no "public domain". "public domain", at least in the U.S. refers almost exclusively to expired copyrights. There is no other typical way for a work to enter public domain. (Yes the forum rules here misstate this several times, unless Austrailia differs, in which case that notion of public domain is not the norm).

WTFPL is an example of a highly "permissive" license. Its intended function is for software and for a trivially permissive license there choose MIT, ISC, or similar instead. If trying to grant maximum rights in the most irrevocable manner possible, for non-software, CC0 is a good choice.
newbrain:

--- Quote from: iteratee on August 23, 2020, 11:01:39 am ---[a lot of correct and well explained stuff]

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Ah, I really got the wrong impression from your first trollish (your words  ;)) comment, and fell for it hook,line and sinker  :-[

I've got a bit of a hair trigger for this stuff: as part of my job, I struggled to clear the misinformation and misunderstanding on how FOSS licenses works so many times...more often than not, from paladin and evangelist of FOSS - which is a bit sad.

About the rights: they cannot be "annihilated", by an author can transfer them to another entity.
But you probably know this very well.
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