[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Belated (server) GUI frontend design

["Nathan Gundlach" <dagchess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Pfitzner" <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dagchess@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Belated (server) GUI frontend design


> "Nathan Gundlach" <dagchess@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 1. I'd like some feedback! What do you all think. Also, I've decided to
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> > do this in RapidQ. www.egroups.com/groups/RapidQ =
> > www.basicguru.com/abc/RapidQ.
>
> I think using RapidQ will significantly reduce the number of people
> who will be interested in, or use, your frontend.
>
> I'm also concerned about the licencing.  <rant> I get very annoyed
> about software sites which say "its free!" without saying anything
> more about whether its gratis ("free beer") or libre ("free speech")
> or what the real licencing is. </rant>
>
> From, eg, http://www.basicguru.com/abc/RapidQ/docs/chapter1.html#16
> it appears that RapidQ is merely gratis (no cost), not libre
> (open source).
>
> As I don't understand enough the details of how the frontend will
> interact with the RapidQ interpreter and the Freeciv server, I'm not
> sure whether this is merely unappealing, or whether it presents a
> legal licensing problem in terms of interaction with the licence
> (GPL) of Freeciv.  It certainly IMO would prevent this being adopted
> as the "standard" server frontend.

I doubt it, since it will be stand-alone and the source for the frontend
will be GPL. It will interact by creating shell scripts/batch files, and a
config file for the server to read.

> BTW, please configure your email client not to send HTML.

Done.

> -- David
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