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[tools-yak@collab] Re: GraphViz and Wikis (and VCG)

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From: Jack Park <jackpark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:27:57 -0700
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Shawn,    (01)

Have you moved to VCG?  GPL in apps that run as servers, like GraphViz and 
MySQL, is not a problem, so far as I know.    (02)

Jack    (03)

At 09:22 AM 4/19/2003, Shawn Murphy wrote:
>Those with licensing concerns about ATT's GraphViz might be interested
>in the roughly comparable VCG (Visualization of Compiler Graphs):
>   http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html
>This code was last updated in 1995 and nobody has really contributed to
>it despite it being GPLed.  That was because its crown jewels (the graph
>layout routines) were released in obfuscated C.
>
>There is a link from here to the latest, now de-uglified version:
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2003-February/msg00029.html
>   http://introspector.sourceforge.net/debian/incoming/vcg_1.30-4.tar.gz
>Apparently the author is now no longer involved in a commercial product
>which exploited some of his original algorithms.  Hence his motivation
>for the uglification has vanished.  Expect further VCG development soon
>because of dissatisfaction with the license on the GraphViz code.
>http://collab.blueoxen.net/forums/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=tools-yak&i=1050769378.1711.13148.camel@prometheus
> 
>    (04)

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