Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-21 Thread John Emmas
On 21 Sep 2011, at 16:50, Chris Vine wrote: > > The LGPL-2.1 itself says "This is the first released version of the > Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public > License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1". > Ah yes, you're right. It's a bit easy to miss but

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-21 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:50:29 +0100 Chris Vine wrote: > [ship] Some developers (the > linux kernel developers in particular) do not like this, and do not > include the "or (at your option) any later version". I should say that I realise that the kernel is released under the GPL and not the LGPL, b

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-21 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:13:56 +0100 John Emmas wrote: > An interesting point. Technically, the "Library" GPL and the > "Lesser" GPL aren't the same document - even though they might have > the same wording. Just as a loan agreement signed by me isn't the > same legal instrument as one signed by m

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-20 Thread John Emmas
On 20 Sep 2011, at 21:33, Chris Vine wrote: > > As far as I am aware the only difference between the Library General > Public Licence v2, and the Lesser General Public Licence v2.1 is the > change of name. > > gtkmm is released under the LGPL-2.0 or later, at the choice of the > user. That inclu

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Vine
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:26:31 +0100 John Emmas wrote: > On 20 Sep 2011, at 07:11, Andy Tai wrote: > > > come on... gtkmm is LGPL... > > > > Interesting I just checked this on the gtkmm web site and > discovered that it's actually released under the "GNU Library General > Public License". A

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-20 Thread John Emmas
On 20 Sep 2011, at 07:11, Andy Tai wrote: > come on... gtkmm is LGPL... > Interesting I just checked this on the gtkmm web site and discovered that it's actually released under the "GNU Library General Public License". After further reading it seems that inclusion of the word "Library"

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-19 Thread Andy Tai
come on... gtkmm is LGPL... On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Emmas wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2011, at 22:12, Daniel sea McChlery wrote: > >> Hi all! >>   First, some background: >>   I'm with a startup that has developed a new type of database for the use >> of some cool A.I. projects. We want t

Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-19 Thread John Emmas
On 16 Sep 2011, at 22:12, Daniel sea McChlery wrote: > Hi all! > First, some background: > I'm with a startup that has developed a new type of database for the use > of some cool A.I. projects. We want to sell this database and to do so we > require a nice demo that we can show to some invest

Simple GTKMM front-end

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel "sea" McChlery
Hi all! First, some background: I'm with a startup that has developed a new type of database for the use of some cool A.I. projects. We want to sell this database and to do so we require a nice demo that we can show to some investors. Since our dev team consists solely of system programmers a