Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:18:33 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: S ren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, brandon@cold.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? Message-ID: <26693.856966713@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:02:36 %2B0100." <199702261402.PAA05079@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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> Erhm, what about the somewhat funny license tvision is under ?? > I dont like that is has been copythefted, the original seems to > be free for the taking (Havn't seen any actual Borland docs though) > and now pieces are GPL'd :( :(. If this is resolved I have absolutely Yes, I read the same license stuff and I'm not entirely happy that the original Borland stuff isn't easily locatable on the net (unless someone has a pointer stashed away) so we can't even really see the full extent of the changes, perhaps to diff them out and make them into some sort of add-on pack. I'd also be really happy if the author would consider some sort of dual copyright arrangement for his changes, but frankly I haven't lately had the time or energy to go argue it to him so I'm also in no position to judge him over an issue I've yet to even discussed with him. As I said to Mr. Clark, if someone else with more time/energy than I were to take it upon themselves to plead such a case to the author right now, I'd certainly not stand in their way. What's important to me is that I get up to speed on this thing and make some PROGRESS right now and right away. The GPL question is not particularly exciting to me since, at worst, it represents a net-zero movement for me on the GPL usage issue. I throw out one GPL'd library, libdialog, and replace it with a partially-GPL'd library, libtvision. I've actually probably reduced my amount of GNU code when measured by weight, and none would argue that turbovision represents a far better byte-for-buck value than libdialog. :-) Again, that's not to say that I wouldn't welcome some parallel efforts to find a non-GPL alternative to this conversion (or do it over - you probably won't like their GPM-inspired interface when you attempt to make it work with moused anyway :-), just that I have enough on my plate just trying to use the damn thing. My C++ is a little rusty. :) Jordan
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