From kde-freeqt  Mon Dec 07 02:19:10 1998
From: atai () ece ! ucsd ! edu (Andy Tai)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 02:19:10 +0000
To: kde-freeqt
Subject: Re: [freeqt] Isn't the QPL a blessing for Harmony?
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> Harmony into a Qt patch, which replaces the cloned libraries and adds
> the new ones, that way the developers who just want to expand upon the
> Qt library and those who want to replace the Qt library can continue to
> cooperate.
> This way Harmony can also be sort of the standard library already for
> KDE 1.1. This should be a solution acceptable to all, and enable the
> Harmony project to once again move forward and in the end give us a
> fully LGPL'ed library.
> 
> Christian

One can count on Troll Tech will do everything in its power to prevent this.
The patch mechanism definitely is not meant to  make it easy to replace Qt
by something else.

Harmony will be in trouble because patching Qt means looking at Qt source code.



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Li-Cheng Tai (Andy Tai)                       e-mail: atai@ece.ucsd.edu

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