From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 6 9:31:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CFF15292 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.111]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA100C; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:31:09 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA24415; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:32:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:32:03 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Brian W. Buchanan" Subject: RE: A BSD-licensed GUI toolkit? Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Robert Garrett Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Mar-99 Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > I think that it's about time that a good GUI toolkit for X be developed > and released under the two-clause BSD license, both so that developers > like myself can release software with a clean conscience, knowing that's > *free* and completely unencumbered, not just "Open Source(r)", and to > encourage commercial developers to port their software to Unix/X11, as > they would not have to purchase a Motif or Qt license, use some LGPLed > library, or write their own toolkit from scratch. *nods* Very good points. > Would anyone here be interested in participating in such a project by > leading it, hosting it, writing code for it, helping to design it, or in > any other way? Leading such a project would be better off in hands like someone as Terry. I unfortunately am stuck at a company who has resources, which I cannot abuse for non-company related matters. I could however help design it, write code for it and document it. My current `experience' lies primarily with GDK, glib, GTk+ and Gnome with some Qt experiments. I would be happy to donate my already sparse free time on such a project wherever possible. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message