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List:       kde-freeqt
Subject:    Re: [freeqt] something major shaping up at troll tech?
From:       Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-11-18 15:15:49
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Patrice Fortier (Patrice.Fortier@aquarel.fr) spake thusly:
> > 
> > But not Truetype support ;) Hmm. What's our position if they /do/
> > go open-source? Help them out, maybe, and merge in any useful code of our
> > own? 
> 
> I'm quite happy with the new license of Qt, but I can't resist asking a
> few questions:
>  - The new license will only be active for Qt 2.0, which should be out
> RSN. Q1: when?

  Something like 1-2 weeks?

>  - KDE 1.1 should be out RSN too. Q2: will KDE 1.1 be compatible with 
> Qt 2.0? This seems to be a stupid question, but considering that Qt1.x
> will still have the old license and KDE 2.0 is planed for end of 1999....
> (note that I don't belong to the KDE lists, so these are the news from
> freshmeat/slashdot)...

  Quite likely not. But it'd take us til the end of 1999 to make Harmony
Qt 1.41 compatible anyway ;)
 
> Another comment. If we start digging in the sources of Qt (2.0), we can't 
> get back to Harmony...

  True. We need to decide what to do one way or the other.

> Lokh,
> who doesn't know what to think/do, yet. ;)
> 
> 

-- 
	Jo

Harmony - the project to create an LGPL Qt clone
http://harmony.ruhr.de

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