On 07.01.2014 19:54, Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild wrote:
On 07/01/14 18:48, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
"Filip M. Nowak"fsfe@oneiroi.net writes:
Well, looks like it is (but it's not compatible with GPL):
It is free software but is it a free format?
Is C++ source code a free format?
From a computer science point of view, a written specification that completely describes a format must be translatable into the actual source or machine code by a compiler that understands the specification language. With that in mind, code (freely licensed, of course) that implements a format is more complete than any natural language specification until we have compilers that understand the latter.
And we need to fix natural language to be free of inconsistencies and misunderstandings :-)
Cheers,
Mirko.