Well I was thinking that I would just prompt the user to install
UnixNPI or NewTen themselves, then invoke it automatically if it is on
the user's system in order to install packages. Since I'm not linking
to it or including it, just launching it, I wouldn't get infected by
the GPL. (I'm not 100% anti-GPL, but it is infectious by design so
that's why I use that term.) I just haven't decided whether I would add
scripting or Distributed Objects support to NewTen and send the changes
back to Steven Frank under the GPL conditions, or just launch UnixNPI.
I'm inclined to go with the former, since it would give something back
to the Newton community and more users would tend to have NewTen
installed than UnixNPI.
John Anderson
everchanging
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> NewTen is based on UnixNPI, which only does installs over serial,
> mostly
> because it implements MNP over the serial line. Also, UnixNPI is
> GPL'd (not
> my choice, sorry), and didn't we have this whole GPL vs. BSD licence
> discussion before?
>
> If you want to look at a unix package installer that's not GPL'd, I
> believe
> that PhilZ's lpkg installer is BSD licenced. Unfortunately his page
> is gone,
> and I seem to have lost my mirror. But a google search for "lpkg
> newton"
> turns up a bunch of promising results...
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