Re: Portable AbiWord

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, John T. Haller wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:03:58 -0500
> From: John T. Haller <abiword@johnhaller.com>
> To: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Portable AbiWord
>
>
> Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > I have no problem with your current use of the AbiWord
> > name or logo.

The logo could be under stricer terms but once Dom says it is okay you are
sorted.

> > Especially since it seems that you're just taking our official
> > binaries and compressing them using UPX.

Right all covered by the GPL, nothing to see here.
you aren'
> And my wrapper, PortableAbiWord.exe is GPLed as well. The source is
> included in the package. (For the curious, it's written in Nullsoft
> Scriptable Installer System and quite lightweight) I'm adding the

As you have probably we already use NSIS, it is one of the few significant
changes I made to the codebase (although others did do all the integration
work with the build system and all the maintaince work).

The coded needed to generate PorableAbiword could probably be integrated
into the official build system quite easily, integrating UPX and 7z
compression would be only slightly more complicated as far as I can tell.

> Thanks for responding, Dom, and thanks for the kudos. I'll be releasing
> Portable AbiWord 2.4.2 later tonight when I return home. I'll drop a
> note to the list.

Thanks for your work.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Jan 11 00:54:36 2006