nanogui: License W Toolkit
Subject:
License W Toolkit
From:
Wilken Boie ####@####.####
Date:
26 Jan 2001 13:59:18 -0000
Message-Id: <3A7183A1.C035C0B1@controlvideo.de>
Hallo Kay,
as you can see from the following excerpts from ####@####.####
there is some current interest in your W Toolkit along with some concern
about using/porting it.
Several users of nano-X hope that your publication of Wt's source
in the net means, that it is under some kind of public license.
We would very much appreciate a clarifying word from you.
Thank you very much
Wilken Boie
On 18 Dec 2000 Greg Haerr wrote:
>
> : usable, Greg was talking about porting the toolkit from the W window
> : system (assuming he can get the author to put it under a license of some
>
> I have the Wt toolkit running on Nano-X. Unlike W, which is
> very ugly and gross, Wt seems to be simple and elegant. It
> provides all the basic widgets that a simple toolkit needs,
> like edit, listbox, scrollbars, etc.
>
> The reason that I like Wt is that it's about as object-oriented as one
> can get in C. For instance, there's a single create procedure,
> wt_create(). This function takes a class name (actually, widget_template *)
> to specify the widget to create. It's very easy to build complex
> widgets built from simple widgets. Contrast this with GTK+,
> which has a separate gtk_create_button, etc for every single
> widget, and very little object orientation (at least in the namespace).
>
> Wt's license is a little open for interpretation, however, which isn't
> good. The latest version is GPL, but the versions prior are available
> as some sort of "free" license, which isn't really specified too well.
>
> Wt is also documented very well.
>
On 19 Dec 2000 Greg Haerr wrote:
>
> : I searched the net but only found some old sources
> : originating in '96.
>
> Yep, that seems to be the only version out there. And there's
> no license in the tarball.
>
>
> : probably be _some_ work to (re)do till it works on Nano-X....
> : Do you have a working source or at least a pointer?
>
> I have spent some time and got the basic widgets running, but
> haven't posted the tarball yet. Let me see if Kay Roemer responds
> to an email, I'd like to get the license straightened out first.
>
PS
Probably Greg Haerr tried to contact you under your former Frankfurt
mail address ####@####.#### which might be out
of operation.
