nanogui: Re: Stupid licensing thread (Was: Request for comments - Microwindows)
Subject:
Re: Stupid licensing thread (Was: Request for comments - Microwindows)
From:
"Louis P. Santillan" ####@####.####
Date:
4 Oct 1999 23:13:24 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910041605220.18380-100000@neptune.calstatela.edu>
I totally agree with Alan...
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"It's not about the money...It's about the rules. Without rules,
we might as well be tree climbers flinging crap at each other."
- Red Foreman of That '70s Show
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >As long as the API and/or messaging protocol are open spec, then anyone
> > >can write their own library. X is an example, XFree uses opensource
> > >license, metrox and accelx used closed. Same function, same result, but
> > >they had to write their own library.
>
> [Equally a server]
>
> > Actually they wouldn't have had to if they didn't want to. The XFree license
> > permits closed source use.
>
> Indeed. And while LGPL might be better in some ways than the BSD license X
> wouldnt be where it is today had it had a GPL library
>
>
