Apologies if I’m way off base here as I’m not familiar with Corinthia or QT Editor. If Corinthia were to develop the web-based editor mentioned upthread and make that the preferred/recommended editor for the project, does that make the QT Editor optional enough for Apache?
<shameless-plug>Apache Flex is a UI Toolkit for web apps as well as desktop and mobile apps and the community is working on a version that outputs HTML/JS/CSS that can be consumed by Apache Cordova to target multiple platforms.</shameless-plug> -Alex On 9/7/15, 2:37 AM, "Greg Stein" <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sep 7, 2015 4:12 PM, "Jochen Theodorou" <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: >>... >> I am not sure that approach is realistic. I mean, if you say it must be >optional and not required, then there must be an existing alternative. And >that alternative must be not LGPL. If there is such a toolkit, then why >not >go with that right away? The project has to manage its resources well. > >Exactly. Without an alternative, then you have a pile of code that doesn't >meet any user expectations. > >If it can be released as a library, for downstream users to produce an >editor, then okay. But an releasing an editor with no UI is kind of a >non-starter. :-( > >Given the UI landscape, and its licensing, I can see why Corinthia would >like to host elsewhere. One day, we'll see some permissive UI >libraries.... > >Cheers, >-g
