Below... On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 02:44, Marcus wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 1:31 am, Michael J. Ryan wrote: > > Also have to mention that GTK# can be used on the windows > > side.
You have things slightly confused. > First Qt was "bad" because it wasn't GPL. It wasn't bad because it wasn't GPL. It was bad because it wasn't GPL *compatible*. There's a big difference. LGPL, BSD without advertising clause, MIT/X11... All of these are GPL-compatible. The original Qt license and the QPL were not. This meant that the original KDE could not have binaries distributed legally, unless the KDE authors wrote an exception into their license for the Qt libraries (which many didn't). It also meant that any non-KDE GPL code couldn't be used in KDE apps because the non-KDE GPL code wouldn't have the Qt exception in its license (such as readline, though why you'd want to use readline in a KDE app is beyond me, it's just an example of an existing GPL library). > Now it's "bad" because it's GPL. I > don't get it. Now it's "bad" for proprietary vendors, or anyone who wants to consider writing proprietary code. KDE and TrollTech don't consider this to be a "bad" thing. Many others do. One of the bigger complaints I've heard about the GPL license and the TrollTech proprietary license isn't so much the cost of the proprietary license (> $1500/developer, IIRC), it's the initial development requirement. More specifically, the licenses are written such that if you want to even *consider* using the non-GPL license, you must *start* with the non-GPL license. You can't just develop your app internally, never distributing it, get a feel for Qt and how it works, and then decide "yes, this is worth paying TrollTech" and make it proprietary. Of course, there's always the question of how to actually *enforce* that requirement... But it irks people regardless, because they can't migrate from a GPL-compatible license to a proprietary license while using Qt. - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
