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License: other
Other License: RTK is proposed to be under so-called RPL (Radionica Public 
Lincese, http://www.radionica.org/rpl/v01.html). RPL is actually GNU Library 
General Public License (LGPL) v2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) with 
following exceptions:

   1. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give 
permission for additional uses of the text contained in this release of the 
library as licenced under the Radionica Public Lincese, applying either version 
2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version of the Licence as 
published by the copyright holders of version 2 of the Licence document.

   2. The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and distribute 
under the user's own terms, binary object code versions of works based on the 
Library.

   3. If you copy code from files distributed under the terms of the GNU 
General Public Licence or the GNU Library General Public Licence into a copy of 
this library, as this licence permits, the exception does not apply to the code 
that you add in this way. To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such 
modified files, you must delete this exception notice from such code and/or 
adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly.

   4. If you write modifications of your own for this library, it is your 
choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications. If you 
do not wish that, you must delete the exception notice from such code and/or 
adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly.
Package: RTK
System name: rtk
Type: non-GNU

Description:
This is (draft) RTK description from (working) RTK Book:
RTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for GNU/HURD, GNU/Linux, and different 
unices, as well as Microsoft® Windows®, and MacOS?® X. We have planned support 
for sever other operating systems in the future - notably Symbian OS and QNX. 
It provides modern GUI functionality with support for different devices and 3D 
graphics via OpenGL?®. RTK team have spent a lot of time in redesigning old 
eFLTK code in order to make RTK more optimised, stable, and robust. It's open 
architecture and opensource way of development makes RTK easily adoptable for 
any kind of software development, not just GUI. It is currently maintained by a 
small group of developers across the world with a central repository on GNU 
Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rtk).

Relation between eFLTK and RTK? - eFLTK project will be abandoned when RTK 
project on Savannah is registered. EDE (eFLTK) team would like to change name 
of our base toolkit on top of which EDE and it's 25+ applications are built. 
The main reason for this movement is that we would like to move everything from 
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ede) to Savannah. Some subprojects 
are already on Savannah (EDE Translation Project per example). The main reason 
for changing name from eFLTK to RTK is that eFLTK is not FLTK anymore - it's 
much better organised, optimised, and more opened to contributions than FLTK 
(IMHO). It also contains a lot of high-level classes that allows developer(s) 
to build all kinds of modern applications much faster and easier.

One of the best examples what can be done with (currently still named eFLTK) is 
at http://ede.ho.com/ all screenshots there are made in EDE, which is built via 
RTK (eFLTK).

Source code of eFLTK (future RTK) can be found at 
http://ede.ho.com/pak/snapshots/efltk-1.0.0-20030724.src.tgz .

Sure, there is CVS repository for EDE. eFLTK (RTK) module is located there. 
Hopefully (if you are lucky and SF CVS works) you can check eFLTK out with 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/ede login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/ede co efltk

Other Software Required:
For core RTK one would need (i am talking about GNU/Linux operating system 
here) just libdl.so , libm.so, and (optionally) libiconv.so.
There are plenty of options and each of them require few specific libraries 
which are in mosta cases distributed in common GNU/Linux distribution (POSIX 
Threads, unixODBC, ...).

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