On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 18:04 -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > > Umm, isn't QT already GPL? How much better do you want than that? > > Oh, you want to make proprietary code? Too bad, so sad, I couldn't care > less. I consider that an additional benefit of QT over GTK. Write your > own windowing library, don't expect to sponge off the open source movement. >
Just because a library is GPL doesn't mean you can't make proprietary code that uses said library. The question is one of design and linking. Statically link a GPL library into your code, and your code is a derivative work and falls under the GPL. Make the portion that requires the GPL library an optional GPL module, and you're good to go. If this were not the case, then every application that runs on Linux, or uses X, or uses any number of other things that are GPL would be GPL and there would be more lawsuits than we have lawyers (or no proprietary applications for use with GPL code). Really, there are way too many people with misconceptions about the GPL. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
