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