Re: Enlightment packaging
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> Amos Shapira wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I though I saw that someone was packaging the Enlightment window manager
> >(http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment, US mirror at
> >http://www.kickit.org/enlightenment/), but I can't find it in
> >hamm's Packages list.
> >
> >Does anyone know anything about this?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >--Amos
> >
> >--Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
> >133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen
> >Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England."
> >ISRAEL amos@gezernet.co.il | -- Anonymous
>
> (as I heard it...)
>
> Enlightenment has a license that prevents it's migration to certain
> operating systems, which is a restriction on derived works, which
> makes it not "free software". It could be packaged into non-free
> however, as I understand it.
>
> This would discourage people from doing the packaging, however, there
> may still be someone doing it.
>
Actually, the part of the license which restricts it's use on Win95, might
not be valid w/ the GPL. In talking with one of the people with Cygnus,
the reason they couldn't release the GNU-WIN stuff under the LGPL for most
people and everyone else could use the GPL, is because the [L]GPL doesn't
allow you to modify it. So who knows, that might mean that it's under the
GPL only.
Shaya
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