Re: [Pythoncard-users] Thinking about Filemaker replacement

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Kevin Altis wrote:
> beware, middle posting below... ;-)
> 
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:29 AM, John Miller wrote:
> 
>> I'm glad you brought up this thread again because I had been wanting 
>> to mention DABO:
>>
>> http://dabodev.com/
>>
>> This aims to be an open source Filemaker/FoxPro visual IDE 
>> replacement. From their site:
>>
>> """
>> Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, 
>> written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit.
>>
>> Dabo's authors, Ed Leafe and Paul McNett, have strong backgrounds in 
>> database application development using the awesome and underrated 
>> Microsoft Visual FoxPro development environment.
>>
>> While Visual FoxPro shines at developing data-centric applications, it 
>> has one limitation that cannot be ignored: it only runs on Microsoft 
>> Windows, and Ed and Paul both have clients that want their 
>> applications to run on Linux and Macintosh. We are sure we are not 
>> alone in this regard: it is a multi-platform world with more diverse 
>> needs than one vendor can fulfill.
>> """
>>
>> I'm wondering if there could be any useful cross-pollination between 
>> DABO and PythonCard?
>>
>> John Miller
> 
> 
> Almost certainly. I've exchanged some email with Paul and talked to him 
> at OSCON. However, I told him that until they change their license to 
> something other than the GPL I won't even look at the code or think 
> about incorporating it into parts of PythonCard since I have no 
> intention of having PythonCard succumb to the GPL.
> 
> http://dabodev.com/licensing
> 
> I'll be happy to take a look and collaborate once the license is 
> changed. Paul is of course welcome to contribute to this discussion and 
> PythonCard as long as GPL code doesn't get rolled into the project.
> 
> ka
> 
[snip]
> 

According to the web site they changed to the MIT license at the 
beginning of November. Which is the same license as PythonCard.

Regards,
Andy
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