Introducing Nvu, A Web-Authoring Application

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that the first public beta of Nvu has been released. "What's that?", I hear you cry. Well, Nvu (pronounced 'N-View', short for 'New View') is a new open source WYSIWYG Web page creator/editor with FTP facilities that produces standards-compliant code. It is based on Mozilla Composer and is being developed by ex-Netscape employee Daniel Glazman's new company, Disruptive Innovations, under licence for Lindows.com. All the code for Nvu will be released back into the wild under the MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-licence. More information is available in the Nvu FAQ. Users of LindowsOS, other Linux distributions and Windows 98 and later can download Nvu 0.1 now." TheWanderingHermit writes points out that the feature list includes "(finally!) the ability to include and edit forms."

Comments

Who would have thunk it?

[7-Vodka]

Lindows, the new model free-software citizen. They're also supporting kde-look.org and kde-apps.org... What else are they contributing?

Where is the open source?

[axxackall]

From the web-site: Nvu is 100% open source

Downloading, untar.gzippining, looking for the source code among all those x86 dlls, still looking, ... not found!

Hey! Either stop lying that it is 100% open source or publish a compilable source. Now!

My Letter to Nvu Regarding Source

[Landaras]

I just sent this to 'feedback at nvu dot com', and will post whatever response I get to this thread.

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I recently learned of your project through a link from Slashdot.org.

Link to Slashdot story: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0 2/04/0050215&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=154&tid=156&t id=95

It appears that you are definitely filling a need within the F/OSS community, and I applaud your group and Lindows, your sponsor, for that.

There appears to be some concern from the Slashdot community about the availability of source for Nvu. Although I am not a programmer of any real skill (and cannot fully judge if the tar.gz I downloaded contains human-readable source), others have complained that the full source is NOT included.

Link to relevant Slashdot comment:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments. pl?sid=954 28&cid=8176411

Although your site states that this is a Beta release, you also claim to build off of Mozilla Composer, which is available under the GPL (and two other licenses). If Mozilla Composer was distributed only under the GPL, it would require you to make full source available to those you re-distribute to.

However, I have noticed that Composer is available under the GPL / MPL / LGPL. I would greatly appreciate clarification of how your obligations differ under these licenses, as I am significantly less familiar with them. You may also wish to update your FAQ with this information, as I am sure I am not the only one with these questions.

I look forward to your reply, and the clearing up of any confusion that may exist in regards to this. Additionaly, I anticipate using Nvu and providing feedback to make this a great product for Lindows and all other users of F/OSS.

Thank you for your time.

- Neil Wehneman

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