From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T10:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits

Oh a correction, by binary, I meant statically linked
and binary.
--- David Ross <drossruby@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I hate myself for asking this question:
> > But what is so wrong with the LGPL in an object
> > oriented GUI toolkit
> > where you can create commercial X widgets without
> > any problems for any
> > purpose. I'm speaking about GTK/FOX/FLTK/TK here.
> 
> LGPL has strings, if you don't believe me, reread
> the
> license. Look at the clauses about distributing
> non-source binary applications. Then take a really
> good look at the clauses in wx and FOX (LGPL and the
> wx license) about binary objects(*note: binary
> objects
> are *NOT* binary executables). Thank you for your
> input.
>  
> > I believe that the world really don't need another
> > toolkit, with a lot
> > of common widgets still missing. Widget creation
> is
> > also not very
> > difficult in any toolkit (TK may be an exception).
> 
> This toolkit is more flexible than FOX or
> wxWidgets(wxWindows) will ever be. WS was designed
> for
> embedded systems, I am glad that the design works on
> nix and windows.
> 
> I am glad to use WS now, it has proved more worthy
> than  FOX,GTK, and Wx. Big deal it lacks the more
> common widgets you would find in GTK, or even Qt.
> Hopefully, people will support this better toolkit.
> You might not find it interesting because most
> people
> do not read about embedded devices and read about
> software like T-Engine. Please research this on your
> own. the research for WS has been extensive. Its not
> just *another* toolkit. Hmm okay, you must not be
> into
> widget design that much, or do not create complex
> widgets. I don't know about you, but WS is a very
> good
> IDE. --David Ross
> 
> 
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