RE: [Tora-develop] [Fwd: Re: QScintilla GPL query]

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Well it sort of semi-done now - still not working enough to be usable (I
dodn't have much time lately). I'll try to wrap it up in the next couple
weeks to the useful state.

About packaging -  I thought we do the same as with OTL. We can place the
whole thing into qscintilla sudirectory to separate it from TOra and make
the updating of it easier. 

On the other hand we can just assume tha qscintilla sources will always be
in the qscintilla subdirectory in TOra tree and specify it as external
dependency.

I've never done it like this so if anyone sees any pros/cons of either
approach - please speak up.

Alexey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Neulinger [mailto:nn...@um...]
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:16 PM
> To: Alexey Danilchenko
> Cc: tor...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Tora-develop] [Fwd: Re: QScintilla GPL query]
> 
> 
> Sounds good to me... 
> 
> Anything that positions us to get rid of the old QT2 crud and improve
> the UI appearance sounds like a great idea to me.
> 
> Looks from their response that we are fine on the Windows side. 
> 
> How close do you think you are to having a "better than we have now"
> patch, or at least a "not significantly worse than we have now" patch?
> 
> Also, would we directly integrate QScintilla/Scintilla into our
> repository, or would we specify that as an external 
> dependency that must
> be available to do the build?
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:44 +0100, Alexey Danilchenko wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > 
> > This is in addition to the previous several discussions 
> about replacing 
> > TOra text editing widget with something else.
> > 
> > Just confirmed with the QScintilla chaps that our usage of it won't 
> > contradict their licensing. Basically they use similar to 
> older TOra 
> > license - GPL for Linux/MacOSX and commercial on Windows. But I 
> > explained to them thet we are using QT3 GPL port ofn 
> Windows and below 
> > is their reply (basically they tell us it's OK to use GPL 
> version of 
> > QScintilla).
> > 
> > The Scintilla itself is a "do whatever you want" type of 
> license but 
> > QScintilla is its bindings to QT3 (as editing control) in a 
> QT style 
> > (with all the slots etc). In principle we can created the necessary 
> > layer ourselves but I wanted to get the whole thing working 
> as soon as 
> > possible.
> > 
> > What do you think about all this?
> > 
> > Alexey
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: 	Re: QScintilla GPL query
> > Date: 	Mon, 2 May 2005 15:50:05 +0100
> > From: 	Phil Thompson <ph...@ri...>
> > Organization: 	Riverbank Computing Limited
> > To: 	Alexey Danilchenko <al...@da...>
> > References: 	<427...@da...>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday 02 May 2005 3:18 pm, you wrote:
> > > Dear Sirs,
> > >
> > > My name is Alexey and I am one of the developers of Open Sourced
> > > project called TOra (http://tora.sourceforge.net). TOra 
> is based on QT3
> > > and until recently was using home grown editing component 
> for its SQL
> > > editor. However due to variety of issues we decided to move to
> > > Scintilla. Considering the fact that there already exists 
> an excellent
> > > Scintilla port to QT3 (yours QScintilla) - we are 
> considering using it
> > > in TOra.
> > >
> > > TOra is pure GPL project - even on Windows where we are 
> using native
> > > port of GPL QT3 to the Windows by KDE Windows team
> > > (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/index.php). 
> We are not
> > > supporting commercial versions of QT at all and have 
> certainly no plans
> > > to do so.
> > >
> > > Considering this, it is a bit unclear to us whether we can use
> > > QScintilla with TOra as is or will there be a restriction 
> on Windows
> > > platform (as it stated on QScintilla pages). The TOra 
> development team
> > > will be grateful if you can clarify this issue for us.
> > 
> > There is no problem using the GPL version of QScintilla on 
> Windows so long as 
> > you don't contravene the GPL - and what you are proposing 
> sounds fine.
> > 
> > The only issue you might have is that the Windows GPL port 
> of Qt is not 
> > supported - if you have problems then you are on your own.
> > 
> > Phil
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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