RE: [Fwd: XV license]
> > Is there some reason not to replace it with a "free"
> > program, like the Gimp?
>
> Well we should be adding lots of stuff to the application
> battery. Adding
> the Gimp would be great but a lot of work due to the huge list of
> dependencies. No one has gotten around to it yet. If anyone wants to
> volunteer work on gimp that would be great.
I've built the Gimp in LSB mode. It's a very large undertaking,
and one we're not ready to use for testing until some of those
dependencies make it into the LSB - packaging up the result would
just be too messy. Several are under consideration for LSB 1.3,
which was actually the reason for the exercise.
[[Details: the current version of the Gimp, aligned with gtk2,
requires glib2, gtk+2, pango, atk, freetype, libtiff, jpeg, libart
(plus I think one or two others I'm forgetting), and needs
pkgconfig to build, none of which are in the LSB. Gimp should
make a wonderful addition to the application battery - in 2003 ]]
> I think xv was picked because it was a non-free application with few
> dependencies which provides a simple propriatary ISV
> application example.
> Maybe it was a poor choice...
Probably if you changed "non-free" to "X" this would be
accurate - I'm sure it was not picked because it was
non-free, but rather because it's widely available in
source and might thus have been assumed to be free. We
needed an app that used the X Window System and the previous
choice (Mozilla) had too many dependencies to be buildable,
so this was a quick alternate choice.
Any suggestions for a program which fits the following
informal criteria would be welcome:
- uses a reasonable chunk of the X libraries that are
included in the LSB so that the libraries and header
files have coverage in this part of the test program
- is available to be used for the testing purpose without
special licensing
- does not have multiple non-LSB dependencies
- is "testable" in the sense that it's reasonable to
determine whether it actually works correctly on the
system under test ("it came up" may not be quite enough
of a test)
I'm wondering if there's a GL program that fits the
bill as we won't have any coverage there otherwise.
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