Thanks, Waldo. While I don't agree with every point of your response, it it well-argued, reasonable, non-inflammatory, and covers all of the _important_ issues. I should also mention that I don't think that any of this mess is the fault of the KDE folks. It's simply that I feel that they are the only ones that have a chance of resolving it. > I don't think that adding a clause to the GPL that explicitly allows linking > with Qt is a very good solution because that basically just moves to a new > generations of problems where people end up mixing GPL-with and GPL-without > code which is bound to result in the same flamefests we already have seen too > often. There are already enough different licenses out there and the GPL is > already complicated enough lets not try to worsten that situation. I am in complete concurrance with every part of your posting except this last paragraph. Which is not to say that it's wrong, but rather that I regard it as an unproven opinion, rather than an established fact. Anyway, if people are too annoyed with this off-topic thread, I'll shut up. (Yes, I know there's licensing mailing list, I wonder if anyone actually reads it, given the "disinterest in licensing issues" mentioned earlier.) -- Talin (Talin@ACM.org) "I am life's flame. Respect my name. www.sylvantech.com/~talin My fire is red, my heart is gold. www.hackertourist.com/talin Thy dreams can be...believe in me, If you will let my wings unfold..." -- Heather Alexander >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<