On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote about "Re: [I18n]So, will Bidi+Xterm happen ?": > fribidi does not use Glib anymore, it uses getopt for parsing > command line, which can be removed, BTW the library itself does
getopt() (at least the one without long options) is available everywhere, and is not GNU specific. Besides, getopt() is only needed (probably, I didn't check) by the fribidi shell utility, not the library. So I don't see how exactly changing fribidi's license will require significant changes (or any changes at all). Not that I'm saying its license should change - that is obviously for the fribidi developers to decide. > But I'm a little confused, when roozbeh said about FSF codes, I > though that he means the autoconf and libtool stuff, but now you > say that xterm uses autoconf too, doesn't using autoconf and > libtool prevent it from being X compatible? Of course not - that almost as bad as suggesting that every document you write using Microsoft Word belongs to Microsoft, or that every binary you compiled with gcc must be GPL. Take a look at autoconf's info file. Here's a relevant quote: "There are no restrictions on how the configuration scripts that Autoconf produces may be distributed or used. In Autoconf version 1, they were covered by the GNU General Public License. We still encourage software authors to distribute their work under terms like those of the GPL, but doing so is not required to use Autoconf." -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 24 2002, 12 Adar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |AlGoreithm, n: Repeating a calculation http://nadav.harel.org.il |until a prior desired result is produced. _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
