Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
by demetrius on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:51PM
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> offline and some library has some version issue with your proprietary licensed language
How is this different from any proprietary book about a freely-licensed language?
If you're in a remote farm in Nebraska and you only have a copyrighted Esperanto textbook, you can't share it, even though Zamenhof's materials might be public domain.
I fail to see any problem with toki pona here.
Something similar can be argued about Delphi / Object Pascal. Borland's compiler is non-free, but the language can be used with FreePascal. I'm happily using FreePascal on my personal projects and haven't touched Delphi in more than a decade; it's a nice language and there's nothing wrong with it.
Sharing FreePascal is totally OK, just like sharing freely-licensed materials about toki pona.
How is this different from any proprietary book about a freely-licensed language?
If you're in a remote farm in Nebraska and you only have a copyrighted Esperanto textbook, you can't share it, even though Zamenhof's materials might be public domain.
I fail to see any problem with toki pona here.
Something similar can be argued about Delphi / Object Pascal. Borland's compiler is non-free, but the language can be used with FreePascal. I'm happily using FreePascal on my personal projects and haven't touched Delphi in more than a decade; it's a nice language and there's nothing wrong with it.
Sharing FreePascal is totally OK, just like sharing freely-licensed materials about toki pona.