From kde-core-devel Mon Mar 10 16:30:46 2003 From: Christoph Cullmann Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:30:46 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: glib in kdesupport: yes or no? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104731404606022 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > The problem is -- at least from our perspective -- that the overwhelming > burden of "compromise" seems to fall on the KDE community. From all of the > concrete examples that I've seen thus far "compromise" == "do things the > Gnome way". I may have missed these things since I'm not subscribed to the > relevant lists, but could you give some example of Gnome compromising and > doing things the KDE way? > > I don't think it's fair to expect the KDE community to link to the core > libraries of the Gnome project while saying that the Gnome project is not > willing to link to the core libraries of the KDE project. I know, I know, > "tainted by the GPL" or whatever, but that just doesn't seem like the way > that things are supposed to work. > > Fundamentally here it seems like the free software community is taking a > kick in the shins to protect proprietary software. > > And note here that I'm not completely against proprietary software, I just > don't think that we should bend over backwards to make easier for > proprietary software to the disadvantage of other free projects. Yep, agree on that. With most interop. steps we only get new libs (as no side wants to depend of a lib of the other) or depencies on gnome/gtk/glib stuff, but never the other way around :/ I mean, sure, glib for example is no bad piece of software, we can use it if it will make the code better maintainable or so. But on the other side: If the gnome project wants to get good interop. with kde, it should consider that this goal can not be reached by only let kde adopt their libs. In short: I think the policy "no qt lib, as it is gpl" of the gnome project should be reconsidered :/ They run around as the GNU Network ....... project but don't want to link against a gpl lib, amusing, at least in my eyes :) cu Christoph - -- Christoph Cullmann KDE Developer, kde.org Co-Maintainer http://www.babylon2k.de, cullmann@kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bL25yPjDGePm9UIRAoQmAJ48iTYIkRxce+ldjXQBHbMpuL8DnACfcs1u eAAAN/dFfKJ/QQMDilAnUc8= =s+/j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----