Re: XForms: XForms and the source

Isaac Barona (ibarona@tid.es)
Tue, 25 May 1999 12:45:03 +0200

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Isaac Barona <ibarona@tid.es> :

Didier Verkindt wrote:

> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Didier Verkindt <verkindt@lapp.in2p3.fr> :
>
> I agree with this strong remark. The power of Linux comes from the
> fact that many people can contribute to its development. Releasing the
> source code gives much more powerful results than it gives
> copyright problems,
> because now Xform is well known. It will develop much higher in front
> of the concurrents if more volunteers can contribute to spread Xform
> around the world and to improve its capabilities (without making a
> huge commercial mammouth).
> Please, release the source code. The more generous you are, the more
> people will use your "freeware world" product (of course
> if it is good, and Xform is good!).

I agree. What about a GPL license???

>
>
> Didier
>
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Frederic L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > # To subscribers of the xforms list from "Frederic L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm@urbi.com.br> :
> >
> > Hi. XForms is free for non commercial use I think, and I agree with it.
> > If you make money using anything, sendind X% to the author is good. But why not release
> > the source code and stop making only binaries? Save ftp space and just release the source
> > code. Releasing the source code may improve XForms development. I don't know if
> > XForms-glibc.tgz will work with a glibc 2.1 based Linux distribution like RedHat 6.0.
> > But again, please grow releasing the source code. I'm stopping using
> > XForms based applications and various developers are now using others less
> > restrictive toolkits.
> > Peace.
> >
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