On 11-mei-2006, at 8:45, Talin wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: >> Having identical behavior on all platforms is wonderful, I'm very >> happy >> for you and everyone else with a toolkit (programming language, >> etc.) that >> does the same. For the rest of us who cannot use PyQt for one >> reason or >> another (licensing...), we must rely on non-Qt tools, and as such, >> are >> likely going to have to deal with wrapped native controls. Yeah, >> dealing with platform-specific crap isn't ideal, but it's not >> unique to >> GUI toolkits, and it's certainly not a stranger to Python. > > What's the problem with licensing? Qt is GPL'd on Windows, Linux/Unix > and OS X.
That's the problem with Qt :-). Python's license is compatible with the GPL, but none of the code in the standard library is GPL licensed. I'd also be -lots of including GPL'd code in the standard library, that would make it much to easy to accidently "contaminate" my own code. Ronald _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
