Re: Of Yarn and Source Code

From: Ciaran Dunn (ciaran@dynamite.com.au)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:59:34 +1000

In article <XM1D1oHpvalL092yn@skypoint.com>, you wrote:
>Perhaps some of us could put together some seed money and make Chin an
>offer for the rights to use his source code (keeping his own copyright
>intact, of course) for porting to other platforms. I don't have any
>great desire to release it as free (meaning GPL'ed) software, I just
>want to be able to use a Yarn+Souper combination under Linux.
>

The model I was thinking of was having a core library that would
be GPLed, say. This core library would primarily consist of code
to access the various news database files and be able to all the
necessary functions you do when reading, writing and deleting from
the yarn newsbase. Then other people could come along and write
whatever they wanted on top of this - a better OS/2 version, a
linux version... whatever.

One thing that I *really* like about yarn is the powerful idea
associated with being able to write "add in" applications like YES
etc. This, too me, is really the UNIX way :)

Cheers,
Ciaran 

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