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 of the

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 ?

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

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

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

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

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 to

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 properly

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