On 15-Jan-2002 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > Can't blackbox use gettext and *.mo files like may other projects or >> > would that add too many dependencies? >> > >> >> I honestly do not know why Brad chose catgets (foo.m) over gettext (foo.po). >> I >> am mailing him to ask. > > Maybe because catgets(3) is BSD licensed and comes by default on the BSD > systems that blackbox was developed on. gettext is GPL'd which by its > nature takes away some benefits of the BSD license. >
gcc is gpl'ed, should i not use it to compile blackbox? My point is not to start a license war, rather to point out that gpl tools do not affect the output. Just because I use gettext does not mean I must have a GPL licensed app. That is also not to say I intend on switching to gettext.
