On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:41:18PM -0500, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
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> > > 1) KDE libs are based on Qt and Qt is under GPL and not LGPL. A lot of
> > > people think that's not a good choice for a basic library to be used by
> > > everyone. I know you will tell me that there are workarounds for that,
> > > but still ... for lots of people this is important. Not all "Open
> > > Source" licenses are GPL compatible. And for some reason ALL other basic
> > > libraries are LGPL (or even more libaral) licensed. Qt is really the
> > > only basic library which is strictly under GPL. (Kernel and glibc are
> > > GPL but have linking exceptions.)
> >
> >    Sorry, you're arguing that the choice of one -free- license vs another
> > -free- license is more important than any other factor.  This is
> > rediculous. Don't try to start up a license war here.
> >
> > > 2) Qt is one big block including GUI stuff (i have heard that is going
> > > to be changed - QtCore - and that's definitely good news)
> >
> >   It is true, so this argument is irrelevant.
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> What?  When did this happen?  Url, link, something?  If this really is true 
> then it is one of those shout from the rooftops things and can get Qt (and 
> thus kde) lots of press :)

Benjamin is getting confused and mixing points 1) and 2). To save
anyone else's confusion they are different points, Qt is being split
into qt-core and qt-gui libraries, they will all remain GPL.

Jonathan Riddell