Flightdeck-UI Library re-released under the LGPL

[George Belotsky]

The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft
instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces.

The Flightdeck-UI Tkinter library has been re-released under the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This is a standard, well-known
license, recognized by both the FSF and the OSI. Previously, the
Flightdeck-UI library was licensed under the Open Light Software
Inc. Open License. 

Note that this change affects the library only; Flightdeck-UI Online
and Flightdeck-UI MVM remain under the GPL license. Since MVM packages
include the full library, however, there is also a new MVM release
which includes the LGPL-licensed library code.

The new library and MVM releases are both numbered 0.2.1.  These are
stable versions.


See the homepage:
 
     "http://www.openlight.com/fdui"
 
or go directly to the download page:

     "http://www.openlight.com/fdui/download.html".
 
 
What is Flightdeck-UI
---------------------
 
The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft
instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces.
 
The web service version (Flightdeck-UI Online) retains the plug-in
architecture of previous releases.  Each plugin, however, may now be
monitored at different sampling rates.  Multiple data sources (hosts
on the Internet, embedded devices, etc.) can be tracked
simultaneously.
  
Also, virtually any Unix command that you enter from the shell can be
automatically executed by Flightdeck-UI Online, and the results
displayed by the system's virtual instruments.
 
Although the web service requires a Flash front end (developed using
only the MTASC open source ActionScript compiler; see
http://www.mtasc.org/) Flightdeck-UI Online is still primarily written
in Python.
 
The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly
to "python at openlight.com".
 
Best Wishes,
 
 
George Belotsky.