From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 17:10:13 EST
>> Although I think this issue has been brought up
>> before, please let me know
>> how you read the GPL text and your view on the use
>> of MS VC's RT DLLs,
>> distribution of the CRT DLLs to end users, and the
>> potential conflict with
>> the gettext maintainers' desires.
>
> Where do we use or distribute gettext? AFAIK, none of
> Abi (yet) uses it, so complying with the gettext
> maintainers' desires is a non-issue and non-concern.
>
I asked mg to look into into porting AbiWord to gettext. He dilligently
openned a bug for it (5893) and on IRC he told me he'd made substantial
progress for it. Nothing has been committed.
I didn't realize that getext has these rather obnoxious clauses in it.
It's seems to me that the spirit of the GPL is "if you need a lib to on a
proprietry OS it's OK"
I don't believe we should give up on Win95 in any case.
Cheers
Martin
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