From kde  Thu Aug 21 16:23:43 1997
From: j.schmitt () pop-frankfurt ! com (Jochen Schmitt)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:23:43 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: The GNOME Desktop project (fwd)
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:42:41 +0200 (METDST), you wrote:

>    KDE is a nice project; they have good hackers working on it and
>    they have done a very good job.  Unfortunately, they selected the
>    non-free Qt toolkit as the foundation for the project, which poses
>    legal problems for those desiring to redistribute the software.

I see, that teh great misunderstanding of the Qt-Licens ist the
question, who have to pay a license fee.

A license fee must pay anyone, who develope software, that is not
free.

Noone must pay a license feee, who redistrubted software.

Regards: Jochen Schmitt