[svlug] Re: FYI: QT is now open source!

[Ira Abramov]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Mark Willey wrote:

> In message <v04011751b278c242db8e@[209.157.97.44]>, Patrick McGovern writes:
> >This is big news.  QT is now open source.  This may change the way people
> >feel about KDE.  Although from reading some comments...some folks still
> >don't think it goes far enough.
> 
> That's nice that they are making their product "Open Source(tm)" but I
> would prefer that they did it right and just made it Free Software.
> 
> Sometimes, half a solution is worse than no solution at all.
> 
> But don't mind me.  I'm just mildly disgruntled and mumbling something
> about "dilution of our culture"...

how about dilution of their pocket? don't they deserve to feed their
families?

I need to read that QPL though, from what I was told it has a legalbug. QT
will be distributed free for personal use, and patches can be made and
redistributed under GPL, but the Trolls keep the right to charge money for
the distribution on other channels. now what if they want to use the
patches that are on the market? that makes the core GPLed by the force of
it being patched with GPL patches (or rather, they won't be able to
distribute it for money after patching it with GPL code). unless they are
going to ignore the patches that are all around and then they lose the
community input.

gotta go read it.


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                                                         (Linus Torvalds)




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