Hi, On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:26, Bengt Thure'e wrote: > I have this idea of designing a finance package directed > towards companies and have two alternativs > 1) Go fully GPL, which means can not charge for the package, > but I can charge for the services (which is more or > less the software package, but I am sure I can think > of various additional items later)
Not quite. You can certainly charge for a package that is being
distributed under the GPL. However, you have to distribute the source
code and you cannot stop others from distributing it.
> 2) Go proprietary, and can charge for the package.
> What is the recommendation today.
> Any recommendations on tools and libraries I can use?
> (For the proprietary version?)
I recommend WxWindows - very much cross-platform and from what I
remember, its LGPL, so you can use it for your commercial version as
well.
> I have been thinking of using XUL for the GUI, since it is
> multiplatform and (more important) easy to translate to
> different languages.
WxWindows also has multiple language support although I dont know how
good it is.
HTH,
Shri
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