nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Licensing
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jul 1999 16:51:24 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907021736490.18188-100000@www.linuxhacker.org>
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > thing missing is a nice graphical front-end -- being this is going into
> > a Till, it has to be small, and it does indeed only run one process (god
> > bless the 8088, I could port it all to ELKS, I guess), I plan/want to
> > use MicroWin/NanoGui/Something for the frontend, to be statically linked
> > against the EPOS-Terminal program....
> But you would be supplying an application linked with a library clearly
> from a third party clearly with a seperate API, so source to the library
> (and chanegs you make to the library) would need to be free but not the
> application under LGPL. Is that still a problem ?
I suppose in the case of an application, it might just be acceptable to
pretend that the server is a library instead of an application, since the
application you are linking to it sees the server as a library.
The problem is that Nano-X is a graphics server application rather than a
library, and it would be a mess to try to structure it as a library with
a stub application which does nothing except drive the server when it's
in client/server mode. In the client/server model it's a different matter,
but it's a problem with the server linked to the client model because the
LGPL does care about the what is linked to what (unlike the MPL, which
protects individual files).
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