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Re: GPLv2 licensing issues


From: Hubert Chathi
Subject: Re: GPLv2 licensing issues
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:23:59 -0400
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:11:22 -0400, Hubert Chathi <address@hidden> said:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:13:32 +0200, Alexander Malmberg
> <address@hidden> said:
>> Hubert Chathi wrote:
>>> - terminal.app

>> If the GPL2/LGPL3 problems are real, this is problematic for
>> Terminal. The vt100 parsing code is based on the terminal/console
>> handling from the linux kernel and is, for all practical purposes,
>> impossible to relicense.

> Crap.  I was hoping that poppler/xpdf was the only truly problemmatic
> case.  Would it be feasible to steal code from xterm instead?  There's
> also iTerm that the Étoilé people have started work porting, which is
> licensed under GPLv2 or later.

I also found rote, which is a terminal emulation library licensed under
the LGPL:
http://rote.sourceforge.net/

I don't know how good it is, but it may be worth looking into.

Hubert




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