> > > > Personally having looked at Qt and KDE I am waiting to see what comes > > out of the Hyperion project. > > > > For those who haven't heard of it, it is a multi platform development > > system written at the NCSA as is going to be used in the latest version > > of Xmosaic among other things. > > > > It is similar in design to Qt but I suspect will have a better licencing > > agreement. > > > > The big downside with it is that it isn't finished yet but such is life. > > > > Joe. > > I don't think it's going to be free. I'll copy a message from off of the > Hyperion project users mailing list. > > Cheers, > > - Jim
I'm not sure one way or the other but I consider that it may be worth taking a look at it when it gets here. But since it will likely be a while it's hard to say. Joe. > > ------- Forwarded Message > > From: Scott Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Copyright Questions > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Users) > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 03:05:03 -0500 (CDT) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > > > Let me try to say this without stepping on anyone's feet...especially my own > or anyone's at NCSA. > > ;) > > I believe (think, don't really know for sure, but almost do) Mosaic 3.0 will > be released as your standard free-type software stuff. I'm not for sure, but > it looks like it will. > > Now, X Mosaic will be slightly different. The libraries being developed > along-side the main source modules will more than likely reside under the > "no commercial usage--you gotta license it" kind of license, but general > public access to them etc. > > This is a gray area right now as we haven't gotten far enough along to > really worry about it. It is quite possible that we will be lifting the > libraries out of the Mosaic project and into another...thus the reason for > the seperate licensing stuff. Note that I did say "possible"...that's > because the future projects have yet to be approved. > > In other words...it's really to early to even worry/speculate about it. > > NCSA has always made public service code a part of its mission and will > continue to do so. > > Scott > > P.S. In the words of American McGee (iD Software), "Everything I've just > said could be a complete lie." ... and in my own, "Yeah, what he said." > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Scott W. Powers, NCSA X Mosaic Project Lead and NCSA HTTPd Project Lead, > National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign > > <a href="http://shire.ncsa.uiuc.edu/";>Cyber Doors!</a> > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
