From kde-core-devel Wed Jan 05 20:46:42 2005 From: Alexander Neundorf Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:46:42 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS) Message-Id: <200501052146.42302.neundorf () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110495801128305 (Slightly late, had to reinstall my server and stuff...) On Tuesday 21 December 2004 21:00, Benjamin Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 2:48 pm, George Staikos wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 14:41, Benjamin Meyer wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 :) > > > > Seen qt4 yet? > > Oh, you guys are just refuring to the fact that the lib is broken up. I > misread and through qt-core was going to be lgpl. Now that would have been > news. > > -Benjamin Meyer Yes, LGPL QtCore would be so cool, it would give a free (even for commercial use) infrastructure library, so any kind of infrastructure for the unix desktop could use it without any licensing issues. And I even think it wouldn't take paying customers away from Trolltech. I don't think many companies buy Qt just to have portable threads and strings. These are things which can also be developped in-house in a reasonable time. I know Qt is GPL and commercial entities can buy a commercial license, but consider this: if e.g. a company choses to write an app with gtk, but kioslaves have become the standard, and the app would have to link to some kioslave lib, they would have to pay a commercial license just to be able to use the "standard" vfs. So GPL QtCore doesn't really allow QtCore libs to become basic infrastructure used by everyone. (I know kioslaves are apps and you could talk to them completely without Qt (It think)) Bye Alex -- Work: alexander.neundorf@jenoptik.com - http://www.jenoptik-los.de Home: neundorf@kde.org - http://www.kde.org alex@neundorf.net - http://www.neundorf.net