Is there a Gnome license? As I recall, Gnome has a philosophy of "LGPL
is OK for libraries, but apps shold be GPL." That would certainly fit
with what I'm suggesting.
As far as KDE vs Gnome - my suggestion has nothing to do with desktops
or user interfaces or even mapping or graphics. The a
I'd really prefer KDE to Gnome. However: Gnome is already bloated, and
KDE is heading that way.
I'd be happy with Apache, GPLv2 (I'm still not convinced about v3) or
LGPL. LGPL is about the easiest to go with...
gerry
Nick wrote:
I am definitely an extreme novice when it comes to code, but
The APRS spec is not GPL'ed. Anyone can implement it in software or
firmware (or with springs and gears) and sell it or give it away or
whatever they want. And, apparently, everyone has :) If it had not
been open for commercial implementation, we would not have had aprs
tncs, tiny trackers,
Tom Russo wrote:
As long as the curmudgeon driving the "initiatives" is actively initiativizing,
there will always be a lag behind the "core" and definitive implementation.
But that's exactly what I'm getting at. The spec is in such bad shape,
that a well-developed, well-documented and open i
Jeff N0JUH wrote:
Now, there's one part of my suggestion that might be offensive to Xastir
folks. I think that a core aprslib should NOT be GPL! Open source,
yes, but released under LGPL, BSD, MIT or similar license. To make the
most of the concept, EVERYONE (even commercial developers) shou
I am definitely an extreme novice when it comes to code, but some of
this stuff is rubbing off Curt and on to me.
I decided to look up GPL and LGPL to see what all the banter was about
and I have an ideaHow about using GNOME?
Cheers,
Nick
KC7RGL
Tom Russo wrote:
Now, there's one part of
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:53:06PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
> Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > Now that you'll know some of the direction were headed back then,
> > let's talk about the direction we're headed now: Xastir-NG (Xastir
> > Nex
Curt, WE7U wrote:
Now that you'll know some of the direction were headed back then,
let's talk about the direction we're headed now: Xastir-NG (Xastir
Next Generation).
I have a radical, yet basic, suggestion for any new generation of
Xastir. Maybe this has been discussed on the developers'
