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- From: joel@saffron.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Joel A. Fine)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Commercial applications in Tcl?
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:40:41 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Hi,
-
- Has anyone given any thought to what it might take to create a
- restrictable commercial application in Tk/Tcl? Suppose that I want
- to do all of my programming in tcl, and just use "wish" as the binary,
- since others have already done all of the work to port it to various
- machines, make it robust, etc. But if I do that, I have to distribute
- source code. It's not clear to me how I could then restrict its use
- to those who have paid for it.
-
- Is there such a thing as compiled tcl, for example? Are there companies
- actually doing commercial tk software? What do they do about this?
-
- Perhaps this is a non-issue: since tk is a research project; is it
- unreasonable to expect that programmers will actually generate non-
- shareware tcl/tk applications?
-
- - Joel Fine
-