Re: PHPNuke license
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:08:57PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > A program in the middle of a pipeline never directly accepts input from
> > the user, nor does it output direcly to the user.
>
> Therefore it is not interactive.
>
> Bingo.
>
> PHPNuks is just that program. Its pipeline looks like:
>
> web browser -> client network layer -> server network layer -> apache
> -> mod_php4 -> phpnuke -> apache -> server network layer ->
> client network layer -> web browser
I was avoiding this argument. After all, "gdb" goes, for me, gdb -> tty ->
screen -> tty -> sshd -> network layers -> putty. Everything goes through
layers. I don't think this line of reasoning is useful.
--
Glenn Maynard
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