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Re: Arabic & Hebrew



I think their use of GTK is legal, but I am no lawyer. All the LGPL demands 
is that the interface be well defined and that that there be total 
seperatation between the free and proprietary stuff. The litmus test is 
that a user can download all the GPL side, recompile it, and the 
application will still work.

Otherwise, GPL software could not run on "proprietary" OSs like VMS or use 
widgets like Motif - somewhere down the line the would have to call a 
system library.

At 11:29 PM 16/7/00 +0300, you wrote:
>I had a look at the gtk patch, and it is providing callbacks into their
>proprietary toolkit in order to do bidi reordering and other input
>method stuff. Imo, it is a waste of time as gtk with pango will provide
>the same functionality without any proprietary toolkit. Besides, is it
>legal to make an LGPL library depend on proprietary libraries?
>
>Dov
>


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