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!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.megapath.net!news.megapath.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:14:59 -0500 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <4e8fe302b927b504b93983dba6b0d79f@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com> Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:16:09 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.32.209.38 X-Trace: sv3-PElBtl9sgczRX987vD0Oh88edbwilWIVv7H9buajuG4RXGokj1wzxPyqOnk9eXnkuWdT0HFOEFz3JaC!M3BWD6oNR/9b9LMXXd1JB88aJ1kdNPfxktRclbI6ChD+9r3rGJ0jfwqKC6paQm4IcYjGPpqYJTIb X-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.17 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4525 Date: 2004-10-01T13:16:09-05:00 List-Id: "Georg Bauhaus" wrote in message news:cjk6e6$t7h$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de... > 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.) Right. RRS will still sell support and the GUI builder for Claw, along with prepackaged versions of the bindings, whether or not the bindings are open source. It's simply a matter of making that available to the community. And the offer was to make the whole of the Claw bindings GMGPL. I have to make a business case for doing that, but I think I can do so. Randy Brukardt