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[gtk-list] Re: Fixing KDE and Qt's licensing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Tai)
Wed May 7 23:15:56 1997
From: atai@ece.ucsd.edu (Andy Tai)
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: fsu-general@fslu.org
In-Reply-To: <3371348A.6CD2A83D@pittstate.edu> from "Victor R. Rivarola" at May 7, 97 09:03:54 pm
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>
> Somebody suggested a while ago that we should adopt KDE as a standard
> GUI. This proposal was cut short because of Qt's restrictive license,
> which unfortunatly makes KDE (which by itself is GPL'ed) into a non-free
> package, even though it is most definetly a very cool program.
>
> I can understand why they did it. Qt is really an excellent library.
> Most certainly one
>
> I just had a wretched idea. If we follow it, KDE will become a
> completly
> free software, worthy of our support:
>
> Why not reimplement the Qt toolkit?
>
> Victor R. Rivarola
>
Interestingly, on the gtk mailing list, someone suggested to implement the Qt
C++ API on top of gtk, perhaps for the same goal of fixing KDE. gtk is the
C-based LGPL-ed GUI toolkit which has attracted significant interest from free
software developers. Looks like lots of people are converging on the same
ideas....
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