Hi Lars, The quotes are part of what I describe as the situation before the license change.
If it was not clear from my post: I have nothing agaist the current licensing of QT, and of the fact the KDE uses it, at present (as opposed to the past) And BTW: it was perfectly legitimate of TrollTech to licesnse QT under the original licensing scheme. On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Lars Knoll wrote: > Hi, > > I won't engage into any discussions about which desktop is better (for maybe > obvious reasons), but let's still put a few facts straight: > > > QT HAS A MONOPOLY > > Depends on what you call a monopoly. Its (IMO) the best available C++ GUI > toolkit on X11. In that sense it might have one. [ s/QT/TrollTech/, s/HAS/had/] > > > - What if I want to apply a patch QT doesn't like? (I'm not allowed!) > > Wrong. Qt is under the GPL (since more than 2 years). You're allowed to patch > it as much as you want (assuming you GPL your patches). Actually most > distributors do that. > > > - What if QT doesn't want to support it anymore? > > It's GPL, the community can pick it up and continue developing it. And even > more: Once Trolltech stops supporting the community and stops releasing Qt > under a free license, the last released version of Qt would automatically > fall under a BSD license (meaning you could do more or less anything with > it). Read http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/free.html#Q8 for details. > > > - What if QT suddenly doesn't like SuSE? It is in a position to deny them > > of KDE and give their competitors an unfair atvantage > > No, Qt is GPLed. > > Btw, the company producing Qt is Trolltech, not QT. Hmm..., of course. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
