glib/gobject usage policy

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Dec 15 08:10:47 EET 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 22:32 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I maintain libxklavier project hosted by fd.o - and would like to use
> glib as a handy C utility library (and gobject as a handy C
> object-oriented framework). My question is what is the current
> position of fd.o in this aspect? Are the projects allowed to use glib
> internally and externally (expose in API)? Are the projects encouraged
> to have glib-free API but they can have their own internal copy of
> glib?
> 
> Any relevant ideas/comments/links would be appreciated.

There is no freedesktop.org policy on this (or anything else really).
The question is who else is using libxklavier, or who would you like to
use it, and what would they want. Only way to find out is ask them.

Havoc





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