On س, 2004-04-03 at 08:57, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > - The PuTTY project needs to use BiDi code (equivalent to Fribidi) but > > does not want to use it as an external library (technical issues). > > The whole point is that it's not a "technical issue". I would > have been more than happy to change the FriBidi's license if it > was for techinacl issues, but it's more like personal > preferences. >
These days I am in a 'full decency mode' so I tried to skirt that. But yes, it was for personal preferences, and hiding it does not help the documentation. For Nadim: I am aware that PuTTY+BiDi is solved now. I was thinking of putting this on record, on some corner of the wiki, as a reference case. We do need more legal-aware hackers, IMHO. > Granting PuTTY an exception does not work, because it means > people basing their work on PuTTY can not use it. Yes. I thought so but i wanted to make sure. > > * PuTTY write their own code. > > It's easy to say this, but I wait longer for them to see it's not > so easy... Time will tell, but it is not a legal issue. Muhammad Alkarouri _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
