On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > Sebastian Moors wrote: >> I'm to new in this project to know what the intention was to ship >> hydrogen with >> tinyxml. Comix, do you remember why? > > I'm not comix (:P), but I did play around in the tinyxml code a few months > ago. > It looks to me like it's embedded because it's small and because it's a > fairly > obscure library. For example, tinyxml does not currently appear in any of the > Debian repositories (and I think Comix uses Debian). It's likely that none of > the other distros had tinyxml either when H2 was first shipped. > > I prefer to keep it embedded ATM. This is in part because TinyXML (as a > library) has moved on, and may introduce new "issues" for us. If we do > anything, I think it should be after 0.9.4, since this is a feature request > and > not a bug. >
That is fine, I can work on a better patch that doesn't force either choice. But I think you will need to add another COPYING file for TinyXML, since its license is not GPL. It has a zlib license. Note that, right now hydrogen is GPL+zlib, rather than just GPL. Orcan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
