Re: [gtkmm] Touch screens and Point of Sale

[Ian Michell <ian michell hanzi co uk>]

Weird I did a reply to all :(

Oh well....(had to type it in manually this time).


Ian 



On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:15, Bryan Forbes wrote:
> For future reference, please hit "Reply to All" in your mailer to your
> mail gets sent to the mailing list as well.  I know I didn't, so I'm
> going to resend that email.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:04 +0100, Ian Michell wrote:
> 
> > This indeed is true, I think you are right and I should release it under
> > the LGPL, the only reason for my hesitation, is that I don't want a
> > company to exploit code and make money off a bastardised fork of the
> > application. But I think you are right as they will hesitate to use if I
> > GPL it, I think LGPL will be the logical way forward.
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:35, Bryan Forbes wrote:
> > > 	On the subject of licenses, I would recommend going with the LGPL.
> > > Both gtk+ and gtkmm are under the LGPL.  This allows businesses that
> > > wish to use these libraries, but don't want to open source their code,
> > > to use them without violating the license.  I could see your touchscreen
> > > libraries becoming something businesses could use for kiosks, but if you
> > > force them to open source their code, they may be less likely to use it.
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:04 +0100, Ian Michell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi there,
> > > > 
> > > > Just following up on the discussion I started on Linux Point of Sale and
> > > > the state of touch screen devices. I have found that Touchscreens work
> > > > quite well with Linux, (within the limitations of X!).
> > > > 
> > > > I want to know if anyone wants to do a project based on this, as I have
> > > > some cool POS code I am going to release under either the GPL or LGP, so
> > > > obviously I would like comments on the license etc. The POS application
> > > > is based on GTKMM and is not complete (unless you count all the
> > > > libraries: Plugin Loader (not complete), Database Library (multi
> > > > database support -> not fully implemented) and a few other bits and
> > > > bobs.
> > > > 
> > > > Please let me know, so I can create the sf.net project or release it in
> > > > my own CVS repository :) I'm sure we will have fun and it will help put
> > > > GTK out there in the POS arena :)
> > > > 
> > > > Ian
> > > > 
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