Yanis Batura wrote:
For the software to be free, the source code must be freely available. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.htmlIs Parallell 2 zifre or only no jdima? If the latter, is there a free version available?Which toolkits do I need to build it? TIA, mi'e snanParallel is both free and 0-priced, as you say, but I somehow feel such usage is a bit malglico :) We here in Siberia have things much simpler than out there in the outside world. And don't put juridical comments on 20 pages about those simple things. If the program is free, then it's free, i.e. absolutely free. I can even give you its source if that could make any sense. The program is written on Delphi 7 + KOL (which explains its tiny size). Several prenu have asked already whether there's a version for Linux; I don't know. Neither I have seen Linux, nor that version. But having in mind the extremely primitive idea of the program, it must be easy to linux-ish-create it, too. Yanis Batura
I disagree regarding the malglico comment. Most languages have a way of distinguishing free-as-in-beer from free-as-in-speech. In French, for example, these words are respectively 'libre' and 'gratuit'. There is a real and tangible difference. 'Freeware' programs such as Skype or Finale Notepad are free-as-in-beer / gratuit / nonjdima, but come with a hefty list of restrictions, and the companies which distribute them keep the source code to themselves, and thus the programs are not free-as-in-speech / libre / zifre. It would be malglico to use {zifre} when what was required was {nonjdima}, just as it would be malglico to say {lo temci vofli} instead of {temci sutra}.
Given that the program was written in Delphi, it will be hard to port to Linux. I would think a better solution would be to write from scratch a GTK or Java version.
mi'e JEsikas.