> On 6/10/19 11:36 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > No. Path Pilot is not LinuxCNC. and not covered by GPL. Path Pilot > > is a Linux application that creates G-code that is then sent to > > LinuxCNC. > > > > Only if PP was a modified version of LinuxCNC then it would be GPL's > > but it is not, they are two different bits of software that run on the > > same machine. Yes, they are distributed together and run at the same > > time but they are not linked into one executable file. > > Last time i checked (which was in 2015 some time I think) PathPilot was > a modified version of LinuxCNC which included a new GUI, using the > standard LinuxCNC UI libraries to interface with the rest of LinuxCNC. > > As such both parts (the modified motion controller and the new GUI) are > what the Free Software Foundation calls "derivative work", and both are > covered by the GPL. > > I believe Tormach agrees with this assessment, and they have send their > source code to me and to other LinuxCNC developers. > > > -- > Sebastian Kuzminsky >
Thanks Sebastian, That's what I thought after reading through the link I posted (to the various possible user interfaces). From the looks of it one could even use a programming language like Lazarus Object Pascal to serve up the user interface as long as it was able to interface with the LinuxCNC libraries. That's what's done with the user interfaces that are written in Python. Just haven't had the time yet to dig further. John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
