On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, John Ryland wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2000 22:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Jason Stokes">
> >
> > > Dual-licensed, actually. Basically, the licensing sticking point with
> > > QT is that if you want to write a close-source application that links to
> > > QT, you have to buy a license from Troll-tech. I find this deeply
> > > undesirable, but you can't blame Troll Tech for trying to make money.
> >
> > lol - you can't blame Trolltech employees for knowing what they're talking
> > about either. You may want to check a few headers... :)
>
> lol. I really didn't want to get in to the whole licensing thing. Jason is
> correct, but a bit of a pedant. I knew this would happen. <shakes head>
> (BTW while we are being pedantic, I believe the licensing allows you to
> write close-source applications to your hearts content, you just can't
> release them - IANAL)
>
> Clearly the original post from Martin indicated he just wanted to learn GUI
> programming, I don't think he was intending to use it for commercial
> development, so I was trying to keep it simple.
>
> For someone learning, Qt is the way to go. Really it is. Licensing issues are
> just a red herring for most people. But I wouldn't discourage anyone from
> trying other toolkits, just as long as they give Qt a go and don't dismiss it
> because of some silly licensing arguement.
>
> It would be good if Martin tried learning both GTK and Qt and told SLUG about
> his experiences with both.
>
> How about it Martin?
At this stage I'm pretty busy with brushing up my skillset (c, Perl,
Java, etc etc etc) in preparation for job hunting in january (I'm about
to graduate from CS at UNSW), so I doubt I'll learn both, or even either
_really_ deeply.
That said, licensing issues aren't a red herring to me. I haven't looked
at the Qt license, but in the event my coding in my own time does
contribute to anything, I'd strongly prefer it contribute to something
Free. I think IP is getting way out of hand, and I shudder to think that
if I lived in the US I could go to jail for copying my own, legally
purchased cd's on to my computer so I can listen to a mix of tracks I
like in the next room.
I'm even thinking that if the RIAA does manage to get napster to
suppress further development on Pan, maybe I could help take that up in
my spare time. I think Linux needs a decent newsreader in the Agent
style, and Pan was getting close. Although I know sfa about usenet
protocols atm. Another thing to add to my list...
cheers,
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Martin
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