Re: wxwidgets terminal

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Somebody else had the same idea recently.  But there's a significant
> obstacle, esp. in the way you plan on doing it: licensing.  wxwidgets is
> GPLed, gnuplot's license is deemed not sufficiently compatible with GPL
> to allow linking GPLed libraries into it.  At least not in distributed
> binaries, by the interpretation of the legalese as seen by the Debian team.

The attractiveness of the wx widget is that is NOT GPL, thus it can be used
in open source as well as for commercial applications.

> Not really.  At least the actual terminal API functions (i.e. those that

The question is whether the terminal should be managed via pipes (as X11 or
OS/2), i.e. an independent executable, or to be linked with gnuplot itself
(like Windows).

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