FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Fri Feb 7 23:56:37 UTC 2020


On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:39:34 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:14:28 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> All what you say is completely true. Still, the license makes 
>> it a very hard job to advertise the D Programming Language at 
>> the place I work. It is already hard, and I do not want also 
>> get into discussions with IP department about license issues.
>>
>> [snip]
>
> You keep emphasizing the problem with LGPL. That is also a 
> problem with any use of Gtk. If you used Gtk with any other 
> language, then you would likely have the exact same issue. 
> PyGTK is LGPL, for instance. Your issue isn't with D or GtkD, 
> except to the extent that other GUI libraries aren't as 
> developed or don't have licenses you are happy with either.

GTK was already evaluated by IP department and I could use it as 
long I do dynamic linking and do not copy any code snippets from 
gtk code base.

Kind regards
Andre


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