Re: [Vala] Curses bindings :-)

["Francisco Camenforte Torres" <fct dev gmail com>]

Disregard that, it's the FreeBSD license that is GPL compatible. Sorry
for the noise.

2007/8/26, Francisco Camenforte Torres <fct dev gmail com>:
> Looks nice, but I have a doubt. Why is the license not LGPL like the
> other bindings? The ncurses library uses the MIT license (which is
> less restrictive), and the documentation/materials condition in your
> bindings' license reminds me of the GPL incompatibility the XFree86
> project created when changing the MIT license:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license#Modified_versions_of_the_license
>
> I hope I'm not starting a license flamewar  here, but it might be
> problematic for GPL projects that wish to bundle your bindings with
> their source code.
>
> 2007/8/25, Ed Schouten <ed fxq nl>:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > After reading a lot of manpages, taking a look at a lot of function
> > prototypes, etc. I've finally finished writing my (n)curses bindings for
> > Vala! This means that you can now write fancy curses applications using
> > a nice object oriented language. Below is a small sample application:
> >
> > | using GLib;
> > | using Curses;
> > |
> > | class HelloWorld {
> > |       public static int main(string[] args) {
> > |               initscr();
> > |               start_color();
> > |
> > |               init_pair((short)1, Color.GREEN, Color.RED);
> > |
> > |               var win = Window.newwin(LINES - 8, COLS - 8, 4, 4);
> > |               win.bkgdset(COLOR_PAIR(1) | Attribute.BOLD);
> > |               win.addstr("Hello world!");
> > |               win.clrtobot();
> > |               win.getch();
> > |
> > |               endwin();
> > |       }
> > | }
> >
> > I've attached two files:
> >
> > - curses.vala:
> >   The Vala bindings for the Curses library. I've tested it with ncurses
> >   5.6 on FreeBSD, but in theory it should work with other curses
> >   implementations as well (Solaris curses, PDCurses).
> > - curses.pc:
> >   The pkg-config file I used to make valac understand --pkg curses.
> >   Adjust this to your own needs.
> >
> > Have fun! :-)
> >
> > --
> >  Ed Schouten <ed fxq nl>
> >  WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
> >
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