From: Ryan Tarpine <rtarpine@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T03:50:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19718] General (GUI/license) questions

First:  Kero commented in the description of his new Ruby Agenda program 
"Ruby Agenda is written in Ruby with Tk bindings (which are in the default 
Ruby libraries; Tk is likely to be installed on any UNIX system)."  This 
made me wonder; is it better to use Tk just because it is more common?  I 
prefer the look of GTK, but (of course) the needs of the users should 
outweigh the opinions of the developer.  Any comments on this?

Second:  I am a new developer to the whole free-software scene (as well as 
a new developer in general) and I am hoping to release the program I have 
been working on; it generates HTML from simple command files using LaTeX 
-like syntax (\toc \section[Title]{Text}).  I originally wrote it to help 
with the development of my church's web site, but it has grown to the point 
where I consider it useful enough that others might benefit from it.  
Especially since commands (\xxx) are implemented as classes, it is easily 
extensible.  Never releasing software before, I have no idea what licence 
to put it under.  GPL?  LGPL?  BSD-style?  I have no experience in these 
areas; I've never tried reading them through.  What would be most 
beneficial to the Ruby community?

-- 
Ryan Tarpine, rtarpine@hotmail.com
"Technology is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts in one hand, and 
it stabs you in the back with the other."
         -- C.P. Snow