Re: Licensing

2017-05-28 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 05:38:26PM +0100, John Emmas via gtk-devel-list wrote: > On 28/05/2017 14:41, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:02:21AM +0100, John Emmas via gtk-devel-list > > wrote: > > > the following 11 header files stipulate GPL:- > > > > > >gbase64.h >

Re: Licensing

2017-05-28 Thread John Emmas via gtk-devel-list
On 28/05/2017 14:41, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:02:21AM +0100, John Emmas via gtk-devel-list wrote: the following 11 header files stipulate GPL:- gbase64.h gbookmarkfile.h gchecksum.h ghmac.h glib-private.h glib-unix.h

Re: Licensing

2017-05-28 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:02:21AM +0100, John Emmas via gtk-devel-list wrote: > Hi guys - whilst checking something else this morning I came across an > anomaly in the licensing mechanism for glib / gtk+ etc. > > The vast majority of the header files state that it's LGPL. But &g

Licensing

2017-04-19 Thread John Emmas via gtk-devel-list
Hi guys - whilst checking something else this morning I came across an anomaly in the licensing mechanism for glib / gtk+ etc. The vast majority of the header files state that it's LGPL. But occasionally there are GPL headers here and there. For example in glib-2, the following 11 header

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 23 avril 2012, à 02:04 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov a écrit : В Чтв, 19/04/2012 в 08:13 +0200, Vincent Untz пишет: Le mercredi 18 avril 2012, à 13:19 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote: Evgeniy wrote: ... Is this possible?

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-23 Thread Evgeniy Philippov
В Пнд, 23/04/2012 в 09:37 +0200, Vincent Untz пишет: Why not just ask your initial question there? It's a standard mailing list, so don't be afraid of using it. There's no specific laws there. I would think you'd be in a good position to help the people on legal-list clarify the question if

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-23 Thread Evgeniy Philippov
Dieter Verfaillie wrote: Another option might be to use the LoadLibrary() + GetProcAddress() technique to get at the functions you need, which is already being used with success in GLib and GTK+ [1]. Doing so makes it unnecessary to redistribute proprietary licensed header files with GTK+

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-22 Thread Evgeniy Philippov
В Чтв, 19/04/2012 в 08:13 +0200, Vincent Untz пишет: Le mercredi 18 avril 2012, à 13:19 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote: Evgeniy wrote: ... Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA. Jernej Simončič wrote: The

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 18 avril 2012, à 13:19 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote: Evgeniy wrote: ... Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA. Jernej Simončič wrote: The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit,

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-18 Thread Piñeiro
On 04/17/2012 01:50 PM, Evgeniy Philippov wrote: (I didn't yet research where my possible future UIA code goes to: probably to ATK, but I didn't study yet.) Why on ATK? ATK is an accessibility abstraction like UIA. What do you want to add on ATK in relation to UIA? BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote: Evgeniy wrote: ... Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA. Jernej Simončič wrote: The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit, and they include the following in the license: ... Okay. Is it

Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-17 Thread Евгений Филиппов
Hello everyone, I'd be happy to add support for Microsoft layers in GTK+, but there is a problem with Windows SDK's license. The uiautomation.h and other UI Automation (UIA) headers cannot probably be distributed with GTK+. These headers are part of Windows SDK. Windows SDK for Windows 7 and

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-17 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:17:41 +0900, Евгений Филиппов wrote: Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA. The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit, and they include the following in the license: ,- | |This software is licensed under the GNU General Public

Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

2012-04-17 Thread Evgeniy Philippov
Evgeniy wrote: ... Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA. Jernej Simončič wrote: The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit, and they include the following in the license: ... Okay. Is it possible to include my possible future UIA code into GTK+ codebase if I

Using glib on Iphone and licensing issues.

2011-08-12 Thread Prakash
Hi all, I was wondering if i can get some pointers on using glib (LGPL) code on some iphone software we plan to do. Even though LGPL lets you be compatible as long as you provide, minimal source, object files plus instructions + “permit the user to recombine or relink the Application with a

Re: Questions about Contributions / Licensing for GTK+

2009-07-24 Thread Chris Vine
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:26:27 -0700 Bryant H Lee brya...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'm currently working with my development team in consuming GTK+ for our development and use with Mozilla Firefox and before including into my product I needed to verify a couple items: 1. Is there a policy /

Questions about Contributions / Licensing for Pango

2009-07-23 Thread Bryant H Lee
I'm currently working with my development team in consuming Pango for our development and use with Mozilla Firefox and before including into my product I needed to verify a couple items: 1. Is there a policy / procedure in place on how code is maintained? Mainly need some assurances that code

Questions about Contributions / Licensing for GTK+

2009-07-23 Thread Bryant H Lee
I'm currently working with my development team in consuming GTK+ for our development and use with Mozilla Firefox and before including into my product I needed to verify a couple items: 1. Is there a policy / procedure in place on how code is maintained? Mainly need some assurances that code

GTK+ Licensing query

2009-03-21 Thread sushil
Hi, I am new to Linux development and would like to develop a GUI using gtk+. The following are my queries 1. Can I write a close source software using GTK+? 2. Do I need my source code to be licensed under GNU LGPL 2.1? 3. I would like to use dbus libs along with GTK+. Is it pissible under

Re: GTK+ Licensing query

2009-03-21 Thread Larry Reaves
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:32 +0530, sushil wrote: Hi, I am new to Linux development and would like to develop a GUI using gtk+. The following are my queries 1. Can I write a close source software using GTK+? Short answer: yes, you just have to share any modifications you make to GTK+

Licensing question related to UTF-8 code in GLib

2007-08-27 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Hi! I have written a library [1] that is currently under consideration for (at least partial) inclusion in Ruby 2.0 [2]. I used GLib as a reference implementation while writing this library and I am thus wondering exactly how licensing works in this situation. GLib is released under the LGPL

Re: Licensing question related to UTF-8 code in GLib

2007-08-27 Thread Lieven van der Heide
licensing works in this situation. GLib is released under the LGPL and Ruby is released under its own license [3]. According to the Wikipedia entry [4], the FSF has claimed that: This is a Free Software license, compatible with the GPL via an explicit dual-licensing clause. [5] I thus wonder

Re: a licensing question

2004-11-03 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 23:43 +0100, Raven wrote: I've got some questions regarding licensing of GTK. Please read through the terms of the LGPL [1]. It's not that difficult of a document to understand. As with any source code license, you must understand the terms of the license itself. *1

a licensing question

2004-11-02 Thread Raven
Hi. I've got some questions regarding licensing of GTK. *1. Is it ok to use GTK to write software, that is proprietary, commercial and closed-source? *2. We are starting writing a toolkit/framework dealing with some high level of abstraction data-to-GUI patterns. Would it be if we made it based

licensing issue

2003-09-11 Thread ck
I would like to develop a computer program which will be supplied with our equipment to our customer. I am thinking about using GTK for user interface of the program which is proprietary. GkT licensing term is GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms

Re: licensing issue

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
-0700, ck wrote: I would like to develop a computer program which will be supplied with our equipment to our customer. I am thinking about using GTK for user interface of the program which is proprietary. GkT licensing term is GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However

Re: Licensing

2003-06-18 Thread Douglas Ian Linder
Read the historical discussion in the archives. Summary: - Distribute the libraries to use (eg. gtk, etc) as standard packages, including source is fine. - Linking with those libraries at run time (ie. do not compile them into your application. Normal way of doing things) is fine. - Place

Re: Licensing

2003-06-18 Thread Murray Cumming
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 06:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I can't see that the desire on the part of the authors for these copyrights was to eliminate the possible participation of proprietary software in free software environments such as

Licensing

2003-06-17 Thread wurzin
Hi, Is there a means by which I can acquire permission to link to all of the libraries associated with, and including gtk for the production of a commercial product? I would like to write several programs that would be nice to have, and I need to eat. I'm hoping that it's possible so that I

Re: Licensing

2003-06-17 Thread Linus Walleij
GTK+ is released under the GPL. As for your other questions, see the GNU GPL FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html As for the GPL itself: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Linus ___ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licensing

2003-06-17 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:47, Linus Walleij wrote: GTK+ is released under the GPL. As for your other questions, see the GNU GPL FAQ: No, GTK+ is under the LGPL. From the GTK+ front page, paragraph 2: GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK

Re: Licensing

2003-06-17 Thread Jace Krull
There was a very detailed thread on this subject not too long ago. Check the archives for the LGPL topic (within the last two months). The net as I understood it was, if you supply a dynamically linked executable, then there's no obligation to supply source, or even object files. The key is

Re: Licensing

2003-06-17 Thread wurzin
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a means by which I can acquire permission to link to all of the libraries associated with, and including gtk for the production of a commercial product? I would like to write several programs that would be nice to have, and I need