[wx-discuss] wxWeb Port licensing and naming

[Bryan Petty]

John Wilmes wrote:
> I'm going to be developing a new port of wxWidgets to the web over the
> summer, under Julian's guidance as part of the Google Summer of Code
> program. You can see the abstract at
> http://code.google.com/soc/wxwidgets/appinfo.html?csaid=7CB069F2487ACE98
> Basically, this will let wxWidgets apps be recompiled as web
> applications running on a web server through browsers.

First off, congrats on your application acceptance, I look forward to 
seeing the results of this project at the end of Summer.

> Does anyone have any legal insight into this problem? Is it acceptable
> to limit the possible business models of applications compiled against
> the web port by using a GPL toolkit as the foundation? I've asked the Wt
> devs to please consider relicensing it as LGPL, but if they are not
> receptive to the idea, then we need to consider the consequences of
> using the GPLed library vs. starting from scratch.

Unfortunately, I don't have much insight into any solution to this 
issue. At least having something, even if it requires licensing under 
the GPL, is better than nothing. Hopefully the Wt devs are willing to 
make some changes here.

> Additionally, I'm not sure what to name the port. wxWeb seems like a
> natural name, but I seem to remember at some point seeing another
> wxwidgets project called wxWeb that had absolutely nothing to do with
> what this port aims to achieve. I can't find that original project, but
> regardless, I would appreciate naming suggestions.

I remember seeing two separate projects related to web ports. One of 
them is wxAjax. I can't find the other project at the moment though, but 
I think it was specifically named "wxWeb".

Here's a demo of wxAjax:
http://silvercoders.com/demo/wxajax/

If this is a port that won't easily be able to change backend web 
libraries, then I don't see any reason it shouldn't be named "wxWt". 
This would avoid any naming conflicts while giving the Wt project some 
attribution for their work. It wouldn't be any different than how wxGTK 
is named.

Regards,
Bryan Petty

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