Hmm, so they'll have to either (a) make it GPL or (b) or pay TrollTech (the authors of Qt) huge amounts of money for licensing Qt for a non-GPL app.
I think it would be (b). Check out http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/pricing.html
QT only charges per developer price. The enterprise edition (needed for database/network cross platform support) costs about $2500 per developer per platform. And $4990 per developer for all three platforms of Windows/X11/Mac.
I am sure a company like Yahoo can afford prices like that! Heh, I know even Kandalaya can! ;)
On top of that, just think of it - if yahoo ports *all* their code to QT, they can use the *same* codebase for all platforms and they will all work and look alike on Windows/X11/Mac! I am sure that is a small price to pay for the effort saved in duplicating the code on each platform!
Knowing the company that is Yahoo, it is definitely not going to be (a).
- Sandip
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