FC4 or FC5

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Mon Jun 12 21:54:45 UTC 2006


jdow wrote:
> [...]
> looks far better until I realize I am back into the GPL jungle as
> soon as I want to make a project that features a GUI.

GTK+ is released under the LGPL, which means that you are permitted
to dynamically link a proprietary application to it and use it. Take
a look at VMware, for example, which uses it as the primary GUI toolkit.

Theoretically, you could also write a bare toolkit above the Xlib layer,
which you could make entirely proprietary. (This is due to its very
unrestrictive X11/MIT license which basically says "Do whatever you want
with this code, so long as all copyright notices are left intact.")

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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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