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GNUStep is licensed under the GPL and has not implemented as many Cocoa features. Cocotron is licensed under MIT. Assuming that the GNUStep authors want to ma
by dkastner 16y ago
GNUStep is licensed under the GPL and has not implemented as many Cocoa features.
Cocotron is licensed under MIT. Assuming that the GNUStep authors want to maintain a stricly GPL codebase, they would not want to borrow anything from cocotron. The authors of cocotron chose MIT specifically to be friendlier for commercial developers.
- ekiru 16y agoMIT licensed code doesn't restrict the licenses of derivative works. Because of this it can be incorporated into a GPL codebase without affecting the licensing of the GPL codebase.
- boucher 16y agoI don't think its fair to say that Cocotron has implemented more than GNUStep.
- hakl 16y agoThe GNUStep libraries are LGPL. And they've been implementing Cocoa for years, so it would surprise me if Cocotron is more complete.
- pyre 16y agoI know that the project is old, but I've personally never heard of much being implemented using GNUStep. I was under the impression that it was an abandoned project, though I never bothered to check their homepage. [I assumed that AfterStep was implemented with GNUStep, but I just looked at the dependency list, and it doesn't include GNUStep...]
- malkia 16y agoWell if you use Ubuntu, then just search for gnustep, or ".app" or anything that might require GNUStep and you would find a lot of apps. The problem for me, is the menu system - in theory it really looks cool, that you can detach menus, and leave them as commands (which modern UI's don't do, except maybe Autodesk Maya). But then I just can't get used to it - give me Window's menus, or Mac OS X ones, or Gnome/KDE and I'm fine - I just can't adjust to the NextStep/OpenStep/GNUStep (okay, my casing is bad here).
- rbanffy 16y ago53 apps, according to aptitude.