[Dar-libdar_api] welcome

[Denis C. <dar...@fr...>]

Hello,

the next major version to come is version 2.0.0 (available through CVS).

Amoung other new features, dar suite programs implementation has been 
re-designed to have a common set of sources that form a library called 
libdar, and a specific set of sources to each dar suite program. The 
specific part is strongly linked to the command-line environment, 
leaving all the general algorithms and data structures in the libdar 
library.

The access to the libdar library is planned to be a documented API (work 
still under process), and open to anyone who whish to use theses 
algorithms. The main target to the API/library is to pass the relay to 
people that want to make a GUI front-end for dar, and, as already 
suggested to me, to directly integrate dar in already existing tools.

libdar usage has nevertheless an important restriction concerning the 
license:
unlike some other libraries, libdar will *not* be provided under the 
Lesser GPL, be will be instead released as part of dar, and thus, under 
the (Full) GNU General Public License. The consequence is that any 
software that has to use libdar *must* be itself a GPL software. This 
closes the door to *any* commercial utilization of this library.

I will not admit that somebody/company makes money with a software I 
provide freely for all, just hidding my work under a commercial GUI.


Denis Corbin.