Re: [Fresco-devel] Re: Cross-platformability

--- "M. Evans" <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, let me clarify.  I know quite a lot about GPL, LGPL, and other
> licensing.  Briefly:  LGPL is a reasonable license for a project
> like Fresco.  It's just not the ideal thing for any project hoping
> to attract commercial developers.  This is why the wxWindows project
> came up with a slightly modified LGPL; wxWindows permits commercial
> sale of binaries without source requirements on library
> modifications.
> 
> The reality of business code is that it almost always involves some
> library modification.  

Really?  Even for something at the level of Fresco?  I would think that
any reasons to modify Fresco would signify weaknesses in Fresco, and
therefore be worth fixing in Fresco itself so other people don't have
to do it in the future.   People don't (can't) modify Microsoft's
graphic system, and seem to do just fine.  Am I missing something?  Did
you have specific examples in mind?

> So raw linkage as defined by LGPL doesn't cut it.
> Think about using a widget library like wxWindows.  There is an
> extremely strong likelihood that *any* application will subclass some

> widgets.

Um.  Translation for the newbie - what does subclass a widget mean?

CY

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