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Re: New Emacs with GTK!
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Per Abrahamsen |
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Re: New Emacs with GTK! |
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:38:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) |
Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org> writes:
> how many versions of unix include gtk libraries? i suspect the answer
> is 'none,' but someone can apprise me if i'm wrong. i know they are
> not on solaris 8, openbsd 2.7 or sunos 4.1 because i have those. i'd
> be very surprised if they were on freebsd, just because they are gpl.
> therefore, restricting emacs to gtk means restricting its use to linux
> users who use gnome. not likely.
GTK is not GPL, but LGPL. Which mean people can build lock-in
applications on top of it, without paying a dime to anyone.
I guess that is part of why Sun choose it for Solaris 9.
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, (continued)
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- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Garglemonster, 2003/03/26
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Daniel Jensen, 2003/03/23
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Michael Powe, 2003/03/23
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Bijan Soleymani, 2003/03/24
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, David Kastrup, 2003/03/25
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Michael Powe, 2003/03/30
- Re: New Emacs with GTK!,
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- Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Hallvard B Furuseth, 2003/03/25
Re: New Emacs with GTK!, Nick Roberts, 2003/03/22