From kde-licensing Tue Dec 01 21:08:22 1998 From: Warwick Allison Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:08:22 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Proposed QPL mods - 3rd try X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=91254649230689 Joseph Carter wrote: >[QPL has] nothing in it not found in the GPL other than Troll Tech's >desire to stay in business and of course nobody minds that. In fact, the >GPL fanatics out there should be HAPPY with the QPL because the only people >it's not free to are those writing non-free software. Let them pay for >using Qt, the QPL lets us do everything it lets them do--just that we have >to do it with Free Software. In all this discussion, remember that "we" can each be both free software developers *AND* proprietary software developers. The GNU Manifesto suggests that eventually we should all be paid through government hand-outs, but until then, the people and companies that purchase Qt Professional Edition licenses (even if only for the support services that provides) are the ones paying for Qt development. Many people programming under the Qt Professional Edition licenses at work also write free software at home or in other contracts. These people are, in more ways than most, "paying their own way" in the free software community. >> saying goes, "You get what you pay for." > >In the end the best we can do is provide our opinions. And we appreciate them. Thanks. >-- >Show me the code or get out of my way. -- Warwick `find $QTDIR -name *.*[ph] | xargs cat`