[Freegis-list] Mozilla & GIS

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:25:27AM -0700, Dan McCoy wrote:
> Has there been any discussion on whether Mozilla would be a suitable development environment in which to build cross-platform GIS applications?  How difficult would it be to create a simple viewer using some of the existing libraries found on the FreeGIS list

mozilla has a major drawback: no code is allowed to be officially
part of mozilla if you don't accept a license with low protection
of the code freedom (MPL which allows others to make proprietary
products out of your contribution).

For example, you have to compile mozilla on your own to switch
in the SVG-support. The SVG module uses libart which is under LGPL.
All this behaves like a brake and the future of mozilla is uncertain
and thus I recommend not to consider mozilla.

However, Galeon 1.2 has built-in and enabled SVG support. I just
tested it on my Debian GNU/Linux with some svg files.
It is yet not colored and Galeon
is dependent on GNOME, but it is a promising option.

	Jan

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