On 9/11/05, Stefan Teleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For all practical purposes, since the > GNOME is not GPL V2? > > http://www.gnome.org/about/
Gtk, the main windowing toolkit of GNOME is LGPL. > > For small businesses that write commercial software and don't want to GPL > > it, you are *forced* to license Qt if you want to make a native KDE > > application. Hence terming it a "tax". > > This is simply not true. KDE is released under GPL V2, just as GNOME. > The QT version used by KDE is released under GPL V2, just as GNOME. I > don't believe i need to rehash the terms and conditions of the GPL. > > Please stop posting erroneous information. While parts of GNOME are released under the GPL, the main libraries that matter such as Gtk, are LGPL. Therefore it is not erroneous. http://www.gtk.org/faq/ "GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties." http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/faq/generalfaq.xml#q28 "Q: How is GNOME licensed? A: Most of GNOME is licensed in accordance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). " So again, GNOME does not require you to pay a "Tax" just to produce native non-GPL software. KDE does. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
