From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-18 06:42:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why ada is so unpopular ? References: <49cbf610.0401170627.79c3dfe5@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:42:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.3.102 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1074436939 209.165.3.102 (Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:42:19 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:42:19 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4531 Date: 2004-01-18T14:42:19+00:00 List-Id: My understanding of Gtk - at least in its Ada incarnation GtkAda - was that it is licensed such that an application that calls it is not subject to the GPL license. Should one modify the library itself, those changes would naturally be covered by the GPL, but to simply use it as a GUI interface would not require you to put your app under the GPL. Am I wrong about this? MDC Szymon Guz wrote: > > well... > I wrote that thinking that GTK is licenced under GPL, I'll check that > because I'm not sure how it really is. > The commercial licence of Qt is too expensive for me and the GPL licence > means that my program have to licensed under GPL and I want to avoid that. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================