On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 14:23 +0000, Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > […] > > Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. > The license is really dangerous for companies (you compile lGpl > source code into your application), therefore it is a complete no > go from the IP department. The license is a huge blocker for GtkD > commercial usage.
I am sure there will be a time in the future when people treat software licencing as a thing with facts and legal positions in various jurisdictions rather than a over-emotional panic station. True companies have convinced themselves that only licences that allow stealing of others' intellectual work are acceptable to business, but then that is the point, they can steal the intellectual work with impugnity. > I would like to run GTK applications in the browser (broadway > html5). Due to the license issue I have to use the C api): > > I hope the authors of GtkD could change their mind in future. LGPL is a perfectly reasonable licence for Gtk and GtkD, it is not the bogey-licence that all the knee-jerk emotional reaction claims. LGPL is not GPL. Almost all software developers I know who express strong opinions on software licencing are doing so based on a complete lack of knowledge of the law and thus the actual reality of software licencing. <rant/> -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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