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-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.zfn.uni-bremen.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <4e8fe302b927b504b93983dba6b0d79f@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1096654086 29937 134.91.1.34 (1 Oct 2004 18:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:08:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4523 Date: 2004-10-01T18:08:06+00:00 List-Id: AndreS wrote: : I have been doing a lot of testing with the early releases of GWindows. The : reason why I started with GWindows was the way CLAW is designed. GWindows : is much closer to the WIndows API. : : Another advantage of GWindows is that is GNU and not commercial like : CLAW. The free version of CLAW is GMGPL, as Randy Brukardt has recently said in this thread. It has been for some time, IIRC. And then, GPL and commercial or not are two dimensions. Redhat is a commercial company, as are others who have based (part of) their business on GPL software. (As always, freedom, not price.) -- Georg