Re: strokes support for GNOME

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> This a feature that would be excellent to have in GNOME as it improves
> usability a lot!
> 
> The good news is that there already is a GPL implementation for
> strokes, LibStroke:
> 
> http://www.etla.net/libstroke/
> 
> gEDA includes support for libstroke, its homepage it's at:
> http://www.geda.seul.org/
> 
> The author Mark Willey <willey@etla.net> has said that he would like
> very much for LibStroke to be included in GNOME.  He's also working on a
> GNOME control and config program for LibStroke to make integration with
> GNOME apps easy.

Note that a GPL library cannot be linked into gnome-libs.
If you want this as a standard feature for all gnome apps,
than the library would have to released under the LGPL
(or less restrictive) license.

Although there isn't 100% agreement on the policy on GPL libraries 
in GNOME, one thing I think almost everbody agrees on is
that it should be possible to write a 100% conformant
GNOME application under any license you choose (MPL, QPL,
binary only closed-source, ...)

Just wanted to point out a basic licensing constraint.

Regards,
                                        Owen