From: Sander  Jansen <s.jansen@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T23:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: innaccurate/misleading portrayal of project on rubyforge

http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?GUIFrameworkProject/GUIComparison

Hmmm, never seen so much crap on that page, since somebody added that
nonsense about the licensing.

      Sander


Richard Lyman wrote:
> On 4/24/05, Thursday <nospam@nospam.nospam.nospam.nospam.org> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > I don't think this kind of mistake accurately portrays the
cooperative
> > and honest spirit of the ruby community.  In addition to correcting
the
> > page, perhaps the kind folks at rubyforge would think of something
nice
> > they can do for wxruby and wxWidgets projects to make up for this
unjust
> > portrayal.
>
> They already do more than most for almost everybody...
>
> > Like mentioning licensing terms of each (FOX having the most
> > unfriendly toward closed-source commercial projects, FLTK being
less
> > restrictive, and wxWidgets having the least restrictive license in
this
> > regard).
> >
> > DISCLAIMER: by FOX, I mean FOX TOOLKIT, not the cable news channel.
> >
> >
>
> Along the lines of being careful about the 'spin' placed on
statements
> - your comments, as well as any other 'critical looks at licenses',
> should link to the pages from the respective authors explaining their
> license, since _some_ consider the FOX and FXRuby licenses to be very
> friendly toward closed-source commercial projects. Also stating that
> FLTK is less restrictive than FOX is a bit misleading since they are
> both LGPL and both have an extra clause to allow for static
relinking.
> Yes, FLTK allows static linking of modified copies, where FOX does
not
> - my point being that some wouldn't find that restrictive. Everyone
> needs to develop their own opinion (business or personal) about what
> toolkit is best for their situation.
>
> In the end I'd encourage anyone interested to simply go to the source
> for each toolkit and make up your own mind...
>
> FOX license:
> http://www.fox-toolkit.org/license.html
>
> wxWidgets license:
> http://www.wxwidgets.org/newlicen.htm
>
> FLTK FAQ entry about license:
> http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L364+I0+TFAQ+P1+Q
> 
> -Rich