[Indigosim-developer] Awesome!!: Jext Licensing

[Reuben G. <reu...@ay...>]

Hey Guys,

This is great news! This means that real syntax hilighting is coming  
soon.

Reuben

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Romain Guy <rom...@ma...>
> Date: August 5, 2005 11:30:20 PM EDT
> To: Reuben Grinberg <reu...@ay...>
> Subject: Re: Jext Licensing
> Reply-To: rom...@ma...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Rejoice for Jext is already available under LGPL :) Check out  
> http://jext.free.fr/jext_lgpl.tgz
> It took me a long time to convince some contributors to let me use  
> LGPL but I finally made it a few months ago. If I could start over  
> again I would go with the BSD...
>
> Anyway, I hope this will help and I wish you good luck for your  
> project :)
>
> Reuben Grinberg wrote:
>
>> Hi Romain,
>> Thanks for all the good work you've done with Jext. It's a  
>> wonderful piece of software! I'm working on a Java IDE called  
>> IndigoSim for Repast, an agent based modeling toolkit.  Currently  
>> I'm using some really old code for syntax hilighting that doesn't  
>> work in Java 1.5. I'd really like to incorporate code from Jext  
>> into our project. The problem is that our project is released  
>> under the BSD-license. The professor I'm working with, Marshall  
>> Van Alstyne, is developing a new license called Copy-Flex that is  
>> sort of in-between the GPL and BSD. Interestingly, both Richard  
>> Stallman and Eric Raymond have reacted positively to this new  
>> license. When the details of that license are settled, we'll be  
>> licensing IndigoSim under it. However, until that time we're  
>> sticking with BSD.
>> Is it possible you could license Jext to us under the LGPL? We're  
>> already using a bunch of LGPL, apache, and BSD licensed projects.  
>> I know in certain cases developers have made an exception for a  
>> project that they support. For example, JEP, a library for math  
>> processing is normally available under the GPL. However, the  
>> developers of JEP licensed the package to Repast under the LGPL so  
>> it could be used in their BSD-licensed project.
>> Thanks,
>> Reuben Grinberg
>> --
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>
> -- 
> Romain GUY <rom...@ma...>
> http://jroller.com/page/gfx
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/
> http://www.progx.org
> http://www.jext.org
>