This package was debianized by peter karlsson, 2:204/254.222 on Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:09:03 +0100. It was downloaded from http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net Upstream Author(s): Alexander Aganichev, 2:5020/201.58 Copyright: From the original license.txt: License ------- GoldED and the Goldware Utilities are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. For the full text of the license, see the file COPYING. The Goldware Library is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), version 2. For the full text of the license, see the file COPYING.LIB. If necessary to comply with GPL, the Goldware Library is also licensed under GPL, version 2. Additionally, permission is hereby specifically given to link GoldED, the Goldware Utilities and the Goldware Library with any software or software library that meets the Open Source Definition, as given on http://www.opensource.org. This includes GPL, LGPL, BSD, X Consortium, Artistic, MozPL, QPL and most derivatives of MozPL. However, the author(s) of GoldED, Goldware Utilities and Goldware Library reserve the right to refuse acceptance into the official source tree of modifications that make the programs or library depend on software or software libraries that is not licensed under GPL or LGPL. Comments -------- The additional permission to link with non-GPL/LGPL software may be slightly controversial. The intent is to allow developers a greater freedom to create specialized versions of GoldED. Examples could be a GUI "KGoldED" linked with QT, a "MozGoldED" mail/news component for Mozilla using NGLayout for displaying HTML, a GoldED with an embedded Perl scripting engine or whatever. However, we cannot allow the core GoldED or Goldware Library to be dependent on these specialized versions, so developers should take care to make their specialized modifications modular and "stubifiable" if necessary. Parts of the Goldware Library is derived from the source of the old Shareware CXL 5.2 library by Mike Smedley, from which I bought a source license many years ago. I have made very extensive modifications (for example, the original was DOS only), but much code is essentially unchanged (gwin*.cpp). CXL was taken over from Mike Smedley by Innovative Data Concepts (IDC), which renamed it TCXL and continued development along somewhat different lines, which I did not agree with (or at least not easily port GoldED to). However, it seems that TCXL never really became successful. At least I could not find anything new about TCXL and Innovative Data Concepts on the Internet (as of 15. november 1998). I could not even find IDC's website, so in this day and age where any successful business has a website, I suspect that they no longer exist. I even tried to find Mike Smedley, but apparently he has vanished off the face of the earth, or has lost interest in programming entirely. I did find some postings (on DejaNews) on a sports newsgroup by a Mike Smedley, but I doubt that it's the same guy. So, even though parts of the Goldware Library technically are still copyrighted by Mike Smedley, I see so serious problems in using them. If anyone should happen to know Mike Smedley and how to contact him, I would very much appreciate to get the information, so we can clear up this issue. Odinn Sorensen On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses