Re: RE: domapi license issues (fwd)

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:53, Troy Farrell wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> Thanks for looking into this so deeply.  I like the BitFlux Editor and 
> am very impressed by it's features.  I haven't done much coding with it 
> since I've not yet figured out the XSchema portion necessary to make it 
> work.  I'd like to use it and when that happens, I'll be more able to 
> contribute.

We will support better Schema support in BXE-NG, one of our customer
needs more features in Schema validation, therefore we certainly
implement it anytime in the nearer future.

> All my knowledge in DHTML-ish programming comes from this wonderful 
> O'Reilly book, "Dynamic HTML: The definative guide."  I have little 
> experience in DHTML, though that's slowly changing - my background is 
> server-side programming with python and perl.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to look at some other options before we commit to 
> what is in essence non-free software. 

I agree. domapi looks like having everything I need for starting and it
would save me a lot of work at the beginning. We could use/integrate
domapi without violating their license, but it's not a free (as in
speech) library. And this could give us some problems later, or just
"piss off" some potential developers (as KDE1 did and GNOME emerged to
take your example).

>  The first one that comes to mind is DynAPI.  How does that compare?

I looked into DynAPI and domapi and domapi appealled me a little bit
more. More "official" widgets, better documentation, etc.. But if the
license of domapi stays the same (I will write another mail to domapi to
see, if I can persuade them to change it), I will look deeper into
DynAPI again. Furthermore, DynAPI is LGPL which would lead us to
"License-Hell" as well. Maybe only pre-hell, but nevertheless :)


> Food for thought:  KDE1 was based on Troll Tech's QT library before it 
> was free.  KDE1 was a ground breaker that succeeded in spite of it's 
> non-free base.  (Troll Tech eventually made QT/linux open-source, but 
> that's another story.  I don't think Bitflux Editor has that much sway :)

but on the other side, domapi is not a big company like TT ;) But it has
to happen before I start using it and not afterwards (if we find an
acceptable alternative)

chregu


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