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From: Denis C. <dar...@fr...> - 2003-07-08 20:36:30
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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. |