			XPCE: a portable GUI toolkit
			============================

Author:
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	Jan Wielemaker		jan@swi.psy.uva.nl
	Anjo Anjewierden	anjo@swi.psy.uva.nl
	SWI,
	University of Amsterdam
	Roetersstraat 15
	1018 WB  Amsterdam
	The Netherlands

URL:
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	xpce-bugs@swi.psy.uva.nl		Bug reports
	xpce-request@swi.psy.uva.nl		General info and mailing list
	xpce@swi.psy.uva.nl			Mailing list
	http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/xpce	Project Home Page
	ftp://swi.psy.uva.nl/pub/xpce		Various public resources

OS Platforms:
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	Unix/X11 (most brands, including 64-bit platforms)
	Win32    (Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Intel)
	
Hosting languages
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	SWI-Prolog	http://swi.psy.uva.nl/usr/jan/SWI-Prolog/

	Ports to the following have existed and are in not too bad
	shape.  Regarding the non-GPL nature of these Prolog
	implementations we have not yet made up our minds what we
	do with the interface.

	Quintus Prolog	http://www.sics.se/quintus/
	SICStus Prolog  http://www.sics.se/ (foreseen shortly)
	
Documentation
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	# Programming in XPCE/Prolog
	Userguide to get you started.  Explains the interface, object
	model as well as creating new classes.  Provides `technique'
	sections, explaining how commonly encountered problems may
	be solved using XPCE.

	# Course Notes
	Document explaining roughly the same material as ``Programming
	in XPCE/Prolog'' in a condensed form.

	# Reference Manual
	Available using the built-in online help-system.  Includes
	various fully dynamic viewpoints to the reference material.


Licenses
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	* XPCE is distributed under the GPL version 2 licence, which
	is included in the file COPYING.

	In a nutshell, this implies you are free to modify and distribute
	it as long as you bahave yourself and make the sourcecode
	available to your users.  To behave oneself means that you
	clearly indicate modifications and the fact this is a modified
	version if you make modifications.  It also means you leave all
	copyright messages in place.  For details please check the file
	COPYING.

	If you WRITE A PROGRAM in XPCE/Prolog and you distribute it you
	need to DISCLOSE THE COMPLETE SOURCE to the program and make it
	available to your client/user.

	* If you have PROPRIETARY software you want to distributed under
	XPCE(/Prolog) you need to buy a commercial license.  This license
	gives you the same rights, but allows you not to disclose the
	programs you wrote using XPCE/Prolog.
	
	Please check the SWI-Prolog home-page at

		http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog

	for details.


