[GEM Development] version of opengem for easy use for windows users

[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:

> I guess the most important thing is that plan exactly what you want.  Do
> you want to include applications, or do you want to have a really
> minimal system?  For instance, traditionally OpenGEM has had two
> version.  OpenGEM Core (or GEMini as it was previously known) and
> OpenGEM Complete.
>
> OpenGEM 6 will be a little different from previous releases, because I
> plan to drop some of the applications from OpenGEM Complete.  The reason
> is to ensure that the installed main system has as much stability and as
> few bugs as possible, and it's also got to do with the sometimes
> potentially dubious nature of applications.  All the DR origin
> applications, documents and language bindings are covered by the GNU GPL
> , but there are some other applications that came with the packages etc
> that have different origins.  I will be dropping those I cannot confirm
> are GPL.
>
> I guess this could be a potential way for your distribution to gain both
> attention and users.  I will be 'dropping' some applications, and you
> can 'gain' them :)  I'm more than happy to coordinate with you so that
> you'll know ahead of time what OpenGEM 6 will ship with.  In fact, given
> that I have not decided yet, you are welcome to be part of the audit
> process :)  If you want to use the batch files included in OpenGEM it
> might pose technical problems on the Linux/Mac platforms.  Perhaps
> someone could donate time to re-script things.
>
> It'll be nice to see some more FreeGEM distributions around.  Now all we
> have to do is poke Owen with a stick until we see Owen Rudge FreeGEM 2.0.

I suppose I could start back up on my own distro that I never finished...

Of course, my opinion on what is covered by the GPL, is much more narrow 
than some peoples'. (I interpret it to be *only* the AES, VDI, Desktop, 
Output and drivers.)

-uso.