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KDE and Qt to become completely opensource (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zoki)
Tue Nov 24 18:00:33 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 23:50:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Zoki <zokiphoto@magic.fr>
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This is from Evan on the Caldera list. Maybe interesting news for Red Hat
HQ to rethink their strategy.
Cheers,
Zoki.
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:46:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org>
Reply-To: caldera-users@rim.caldera.com
To: Caldera Users Mailing List <caldera-users@rim.caldera.com>
Subject: KDE and Qt to become completely opensource
Maybe I missed it in these channels, but I think this is really
significant. The next release of the Qt library, upon which the KDE
desktop is based, will itself be governed by a new open source license.
The Qt developers went as far as to ask Eric Raymond for his blessing,
which they received.
http://www.troll.no/announce/qpl.html
It's my hope that this change will remove the objections that open source
purists have had against KDE, further increasing its popularity as a
desktop and Qt's as a toolkit. This means that any remaining competition
between KDE and Gnome will be based based purely on technology, ease of
use, personal preference and other factors, not licensing philosphy.
Indeed, this move offers a new challenge to Gnome -- while it promises
features unavailable in KDE, if is remains vapourware for too long it
risks becoming irrelevant by the time it comes out. Then again, what's to
stop KDE developers from buiding-in Gnome's extra functionality? Since Qt
will be opensourced (KDE always has been), their developers will legally
be able to incoporate Gnome code.
This could get *very* interesting.... looks like Caldera did the right
thing in choosing KDE for 1.3.
- Evan
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