Indent to package: libxforms-perl (XForms4Perl)

[Klaus Kettner]

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Hi,

i indent to package XForms4Perl [1], a nice extension to Perl that
allows to call the Xforms [2] GUI api from a standard Perl script.
The package will contain a modification of the original GUI-builder
fdesign (a converter) to build a GUI and to generate ready-to-go
Perl-programms.

XForms4Perl is GPL'ed, but XForms by itself is GPL'ed, so the new
package libxforms-perl will be in non-free.

[1] http://franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE/pub/authors/Martin_Bartlett (down?)
[2] http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms

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[Sven LUTHER]

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:36:09PM +0200, Klaus Kettner wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> i indent to package XForms4Perl [1], a nice extension to Perl that
> allows to call the Xforms [2] GUI api from a standard Perl script.
> The package will contain a modification of the original GUI-builder
> fdesign (a converter) to build a GUI and to generate ready-to-go
> Perl-programms.
>
> XForms4Perl is GPL'ed, but XForms by itself is GPL'ed, so the new
> package libxforms-perl will be in non-free.

Not, sure but i think it should go in contrib (as free software depending on
non free one ?).

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER

[Peter S Galbraith]

Klaus Kettner wrote:

> XForms4Perl is GPL'ed, but XForms by itself is GPL'ed, so the new

non-free?

> package libxforms-perl will be in non-free.

Shouldn't be in non-free.
Either contrib or main, depending on whether it links to XForms
or not (see also my previous post about GPL + XForms
imcompatibility).

Peter

[Peter S Galbraith]

Klaus Kettner wrote:

> i indent to package XForms4Perl [1], a nice extension to Perl that
> allows to call the Xforms [2] GUI api from a standard Perl script.
> The package will contain a modification of the original GUI-builder
> fdesign (a converter) to build a GUI and to generate ready-to-go
> Perl-programms.

Cool. I read about it (in LJ?) and promised myself to try it, as
I code Perl but not C. I'm looking forward to this package.

> XForms4Perl is GPL'ed, but XForms by itself is GPL'ed, so the new

> package libxforms-perl will be in non-free.

Does this link to XForms? If so, shouldn't it be GPL + exception
clause, otherwise it's an invalid license?

(This is a can of worms. I don't agree with this interpretation,
neither do lots of people, yet I have bug reports against some of
my XForms-linked packages for that very reason. I'm just trying
to spare you trouble down the road.)