On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain wrote: > Since the two day rant of what a clock should look like has > died down, here's something else I saw in the news this > morning. > > This article: > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2530760.html?tag=st.ne.1003.thed.ni > says: > > "Trolltech's Nord believes it might actually be possible, at > least in theory. To that end, Trolltech is changing the > license under which Qt is released so that it will be > compatible with the General Public License that governs > GTK." > > and also, apparently almost contradicting itself, > > "Trolltech isn't likely to switch to the GPL for Qt, he > said, because that would require Trolltech to change its > business model, Nord said. Currently, the company requires > other companies to pay Trolltech if they distribute Qt as > part of a product that's sold. If the product is free, > Trolltech doesn't charge." > > Is a change to the Qt licence planned? It isn't contradicting itself :) Trolltech isn't likely to switch to the _current_ GPL, although I'd imagine they're working on a version of the GPL for trolltech to prevent proprietary development. -- Chris Aakre -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral