Re: RE: domapi license issues (fwd)
Christian Stocker <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:59:46 +0100 (CET)
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Hi Troy I should have some time this weekend to write a very little tutorial about how to get the simplest possible example to work with bxe :) Watch this space. chregu On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Troy Farrell wrote: > See my comments below. > > Christian Stocker wrote: > > 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. > > That is certainly good news. However, I'm not waiting on better schema > support. I just need to understand what is there :) I'd have to joing > in all the other users wanting a simple example. I'm sure you're busy, > but I'd love to be able to edit this: > > <page> > <para> > This is my text. > </para> > </page> > > > And have it displayed as > > <html> > <head/> > <body> > <div contentEditable="true"> > <p> > This is my text. > </p> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > That would get me started :) As I mentionned, I understand the xsl that > I need, I just don't know how to modify XSD to make bxe work with it. > > > 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). > > With KDE/Gnome, we got 2 good things :) I'm not sure the same would > happen in this case. > > > 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 :) > > Well, with DynAPI, we'd only have to distribute changes to DynAPI under > LGPL, with the rest of the code under the Apache license. Still, I > don't know enough about DHTML to make these decisions. I'll follow your > lead... > > >>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) > > Sounds like a plan. Keep us posted. > > Troy > > -- nam...christian stocker adr...pflanzschulstr. 31, ch-8004 zurich pho...+41 43 317 9984 www...http://blog.bitflux.ch mob...+41 76 561 8860 [email protected] wor...+41 1 240 5670 gpg...0x5CE1DECB -- bx-editor-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bitflux.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/bx-editor-dev