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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: [freeqt] Re: FreeQt concerns
From:       Joel Dillon <emily () cornholio ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-04-07 15:10:17
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> as
> LGPL.  If Troll can't keep QT significantly better than GTK and LessTiff
> then they will be beaten fare and square and our conchences will be
> clean.
> If however they were crippled by a copy of QT made by people who read
> the
> manuals and source code THEY wrote, this would be grossly unfair to
> them.
> Microsoft would do this to a company.  I like to think we are better
> than
> Microsoft. 

  I think it should be made /very/ clear that we are /not/ reading Qt's
source code. This is a clean-room implementation of the Qt API. Not
only would using Qt's source be immoral, as you say, but it would be
highly illegal.

	Jo

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