Re: Qt libs ... included in the kernel 2.6 ... Why still blocked?

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:01, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
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>>Nils O. Selsdal wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:04, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
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>>>>>But one cannot(Should not) do that. If one wants to give the world a
>>>>>desktop/gui development framework, one cannot excpect companies to
>>>>>either GPL their applications or pay(a rather large fee) for licensing 
>>>>>the technology. Our company would not, a few others I've talked would
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>>>>No. I don't beleive is a question or GPL or a lot of money. Actually the 
>>>>problem is the double choice.
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>>>Perhaps not. I'm not very fond of having to many options here either.
>>>There should be _one_ desktop environment/development framework.
>>>However if that one choice is a choice of GPL or pay Trolltech,
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>>Why you suppose we or someone else need to pay TrollTech?
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>That is the fact.
>Qt is licensed under the GPL. If you want to make an application
>using(linking to) Qt, you HAVE to make that application available under
>the GPL.The GPL demands that. Not everyone want to make their
>application GPL/OpenSource. Certanly not many companies will.
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I understand now. So, you said, Trolltech must offer the library in a way
such that people may release free or not-free software without to pay them.

Right?

If this is the point it is interesting. So, you want that their their 
job, just for free ...

>The other option, if you do not want to GPL your application
>but still use Qt, is to BUY a license from Qt. Read the Trolltech site
>on licensing info and what it costs.
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Interesting ...

What you propose?

I am CC to lsb-discuss for comments.

Thanks,
Giovanni

>Using e.g. KDE(their libraries) which is based on Qt, the above
>applies as well.
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>I thought this was a well know fact...
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