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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt/Windows Available Under New Non-Commercial License
From:       Kuba Ober <kuba () kuba ! mareimbrium ! org>
Date:       2001-07-14 20:30:17
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On Friday 13 July 2001 06:21, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2001 11:46 am, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > > Trolltech's newest announcement could help efforts to port KDE to
> > > Windows, don't it? Since we don't charge anyone, there should be no
> > > problem!
> >
> > Not quite. Some kde development is being paid for (ie. developers get
> > paid), and their license EXPLICITLY forbids that.
> >
> > Alas, why should anybody focus on supporting a damned OS which is not
> > worth supporting?
>
> As a developer who is being paid: I don't think that GPL'ed KDE code could
> be used in conjunction with this license. I'm not sure what me being paid
> has to do with that though :-) kdelibs shouldn't be a problem though.
>
> A legitimit reason for supporting a damned OS would be that it would be
> easier for people to write cross-platform as well as KDE applications.

Well, their license says that if you, or anybody working on a project, is 
being paid for, you cannot ship/distribute this project with non-commercial 
qt library.

Other than that, it should be nice to make kdelibs portable to non-unix Qt's, 
to support said portability and cross-platform development. Doing this is 
perfectly OK, nobody forbids you from making qt-win-compatible code. Just 
that you cannot distribute such kdelibs together with qt. If kdelibs are made 
portable, that's fine, as long as you don't distribute qt breaking trolls 
license. Sounds doable ;-)

Alas, we made a GPL'ed instrumentation realtime app that compiles just fine 
in kdevelop for linux and in VS for win, from the same source directory, and 
that really rocks and looks futuristic! Now comes the time to make that 
webpage with Quanta to publish the code :-)

Cheerz, Kuba
 
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