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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Christoph Wiesen <chris () deadhand ! com>
Date:       2005-02-07 14:43:36
Message-ID: 200502071543.37096.chris () deadhand ! com
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Hello,

Trolltech announced[1] today that starting with QT 4.0 the Windows version of 
the popular toolkit will be available under the GPL - just like the Un*x and 
OS X versions have been before.

Looking at projects bringing QT-Free[2] or even KDE[3] to Windows this seems 
to be really big news even in the KDE community.

Personally I think providing most of the beloved OSS applications on Windows 
is a dual edged sword - there have been discussions on this before and KDE 
core developers like Aaron Seigo pointed out the risks KDE/Win32 brings with 
it.

Will the GPL version of QT for Windows make KDE/Win32 more likely - and will 
it do more harm than good?

Looking at the recent LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards[4] 
multi-platform applications like Firefox and Thunderbird did extremely well. 
Someone even asked how many of the voters actually run these programs under 
Linux - this in mind, would it hurt to have KDE applications for Windows as 
well?

What do you think? Will this change anything at all?


[1] http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000192.html
[2] http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/
[3] http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/index.php
[4] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=286716
[5] http://www.kexi-project.org/
 
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