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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Integrative work
From:       Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-18 15:39:01
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On December 17, 2003 21:06, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> The KDE community needs to press PR people into publishing:
>
> 1) that development of KDE applications for commercial ends does NOT

> 2) that the use of the Qt-provided SDK is really advantageous and


agreed!

> FWIW, I don't think Bruce's gonna change his mind.

correct

> It's true
> that from a Cost-of-acquisition the GNOME platform is cheaper. 

well... "is cheaper for closed source development"... it isn't any cheaper 
CoA-wise than KDE, in fact it's becoming more expensive. Sun charges 
per-seat, Ximian wants to do the same for the Evo connector and their Red 
Carpet devices, and Red Hat charges per-system.

> On another note, the GNOME guys seem to have a more open development
> process, and the KDE community has this "appearance" of wanting to do
> everything the KDE way.  I think this started when KDE dropped CORBA.
> It has been a healthy decision, in retrospective, but nevertheless, the
> consumer perspective remains.

thank the propaganda of a few self-interested GNOME people for this. the only 
part of the above paragraph that is true is that KDE decided not to use 
corba... yes, this means we need to do a better job of representing ourselves 
in the public eye.

> The KDE people should attract more commercial development as well.
> AFAIK, the KDE libs are GPL, and so they discourage commercial
> development, forcing devels to use only Qt.

wrong. KDE libs are LGPL, Qt is GPL/QPLv2. what "forces" devels to use only Qt 
is the desire to compile and run on Windows.

> Maybe, just maybe, all that 
> is needed is a special permission to link against proprietary apps in
> the KDE libs GPL license, and you should be set.  Perhaps the LGPL is
> more appropriate.

good thing that's what we already use then ;-)

- -- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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