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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: [freeqt] Re: FreeQt concerns
From:       Kevin Forge <forgeltd () usa ! net>
Date:       1998-04-07 19:56:20
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Joel Dillon wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
Ahh ... I haven't herd that term since Cyrix went to court with iNTEL.
No problem ... you are still reading the relevant docs though ?
>         Jo

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