Christopher Seawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Seth M. Landsman wrote:
>
> > Because of the restrictions placed by javasoft on the jdk source
> > code, I don't think porting the jdk to QT could ever be considered free
> > enough to fit QT's standards. i.e., source code could never be released,
> > save to those who signed the NDA.
>
> Unless someone asked Troll Tech for a special exemption. Has anyone
> bothered to do that? Arnt, would it be possible to distribute a QT AWT
> under the Sun non-commercial binary distribution license,
> http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/LICENSE ?
If you think it isn't possible, and there is some exemption we might
make to make it possible, go ahead: descripe the exemption you need
and ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] For such a question in summertime, it can take
anything up to two weeks for us to answer.
General blah-blah: The free software license is the best we could do,
but perfect it's not. If we can benefit a unix-based free software
project in some way that license doesn't cover but which isn't likely
to bankrupt us, we want to do that. Microsoft-based projects need not
ask :)
Sorry for the late reply -- I'm just back from vacation now.
--Arnt
