This is pretty exciting, especially for people like me who loved Eiffel
when we were young idealistic students but wandered away due to the
fragmented community and the pain of having to write a wrapper every
time you want to use a library. Will ISE release the Gtk wrappers they
obviously have an
Kari Pahula wrote:
> I can assume that Eiffel Software is arguing that anything compiled
> with Eiffel Studio is a derived product and needs to be under GPL too.
> Not that I've investigated this myself at all.
It is correct, parts of the runtime are in every binary, so every binary
is a derivated
* Kari Pahula:
> I can assume that Eiffel Software is arguing that anything compiled
> with Eiffel Studio is a derived product and needs to be under GPL too.
It seem like software compiled using Eiffel Studio links to the GPLed
run-time library, so such a claim would make a lot of sense.
The sit
Scripsit Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What's the general consensus on this?
> http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05_pr.html
The press release ought to have been clearer. It took me about a dozen
clicks from their press release to discover that the unspecified "Open
source license" t
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:29:44PM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What's the general consensus on this?
If Eiffel Studio is under GPL, then it can be included in Debian.
There isn't really much else to it, as far as Debian is concerned.
There is already an ITP on it: http://bugs.debian.org/36
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:29:44PM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What's the general consensus on this?
>
> http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05_pr.html
>
> A good move?
> Or dangerous?
> Regards,
There's nothing wrong with that -- MySQL does the very same thing, and
has been d
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