Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 04:09:46PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > ``As a special exception the software may be distributed linked against the > > libforms library without including the source of the libforms library even > > though the GPL would normally bar this, as long as the requirements o

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but > > depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant > > portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. > > Can the GPL be pr

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:29:51PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > Its funny, I read on slashdot that fltk is going non-free, but > there is a September 23 release which is still under the GPL . Bill Spitnak won't be working on it anymore because Digital Domain (his employer) won't allow him t

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On 4 Oct 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: gsstar>a fltk package based on the last stable release (i think) of it before it went gsstar>non-free. It's a nice lightweight LGPL'd toolkit which is nearly drop-in gsstar>compatible with libforms. According to http://fltk.easysw.com/ , you did ge

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On 4 Oct 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: gsstar>However, a better solution would be to try compiling it against fltk. We have gsstar>a fltk package based on the last stable release (i think) of it before it went gsstar>non-free. It's a nice lightweight LGPL'd toolkit which is nearly drop-in gsstar

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but > depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant > portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. > Can the GPL be properly applied to this ? > > http:/

GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. Can the GPL be properly applied to this ? http://ifb.bv.tu-berlin.de/JOCHEN/XSTAB/xstab.html Jo