On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:38:21 +0200 Audrius Meskauskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> GTK is under LGPL and Qtopia is under GPL. This may mean nothing for the > individual developer, but under GTK we may expect more "commercial", > proprietary applications appearing. One can buy "commercial" license for > Qtopia as well but this costs money. IMHO LGPL give more freedom to the app developer. they get to choose their license. for example i favor BSD/MIT-X11 style licenses, not GPL. i believe GPL's "idea" of free is not the same as mine. mine aligns more with BSD/MIT-X11. open and free does NOT only mean GPL. this is something many people overlook and forget. > It is up to you to decide if more proprietary applications is bad or > good thing. It may well be that the freedom - loving community may > choose to enforce all contributors to share the source code, caring less > about "this second" popularity. But this thing with the two licenses is > important to remember when making decisions. > > Most modern Linux distributions would run both QT and GTK applications. > Keeping this may not be just a purely technical decision. It may make a > lot of sense to do the same on OpenMoko. > > Audrius > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community