Could you explain this to me? Right now, Lyx is compatible with the Qt toolkitQT 2.3 was the only version released with a free licence. Of course,Isn't the LyX founder Matthias Ettrich able to underwrite a QT3 licence? I
if you and other Win32 users were to chip in and buy LyX a commercial
Win32 Qt licence...
heared he's working for Trolltech.
Given that (unfortunately) technically the resulting product is illegal, I can't see that happening.
for unix (which is under the GPL). What prevents a single Lyx developer from
buying the single user windows Qt toolkit from Trolltech for $1500, and compiling
and releasing (not selling) the resulting binary? If the Qt library is so portable, the
necessary changes for cygwin compatibility should be minor and could be incorporated
into the main source tree. Then the "Lyx Qt" developer might have very little work
besides compiling each new release.
It sounds like there are legal issues in the way, but I think it might be possible to raise
the $1500 from Lyx users otherwise.
-Henry
