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Does anyone know if there is any effort going on to make gnuplot also available as a lib? Dependencies like gnuplot are nice on linux machines, but distributin

• codetrotter 6y ago
  Seems difficult to do, because of the terms in the gnuplot license: > Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to distribute the complete modified source code. https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/master/tree/Copyright https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/master/tre...
  • andreareina 6y ago
    You can distribute the modifications as patches and precompiled binaries with the attendant patches, so it seems like it should be fine? Not having gone into the source I'd guess that possible problems might be the code not being factored to make it easy to be called as a library (unlike e.g. curl), or perhaps compiling gnuplot for windows might be problematic. You might be able to go pretty far by bundling a statically-linked gnuplot binary and shelling out? No experience with windows development here so I'm just speculating.
  • wodenokoto 6y ago
    Given the name, that is very surprising. Wikipedia has a section on this [1], and apparently it is not named after the GNU project, but after the animal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot#Distribution_terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot#Distribution_terms
    • sleavey 6y ago
      Wow, I would have sworn it was a GNU project if someone had asked. It just seems so typical of a GNU project: free, open source, around for as long as I can remember, available on every Linux but with a dated look and feel.