[Baypiggies] Wing IDE's License

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jul 14 22:09:45 CEST 2006


On Fri, Jul 14, 2006, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>
> Wing's license is <http://wingware.com/wingide/license>.  I'm an open
> source zealot, but Wing is not open source.  However, they do give you
> access to the source.  You can modify it and even distribute patches.
> It reminds me of ATT UNIX.  I know Stallman would be disappointed with
> me, but I'm thinking of trying it out.
> 
> I guess now is the time for some other free software fanatic to jump
> in and rescue me from the evil clutches of proprietary software ;)

My take is that I prefer Open Source, but since I'm happily running OSX,
obviously it's not a paramount consideration for me.  Why do you want to
use WingIDE?
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