Re: Proposed license policy

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com> writes:
> > a) puts the GNOME platform at a huge disadvantage, and unfortunately
> > some software simply can't or won't be done as free software.
> 
> This does not seem to be a bad problem for KDE right now.
> 
> > b) puts the GNOME platform under the control of someone other than the
> > GNOME foundation, and also puts us at a significant disadvantage
> > compared to the Microsoft platform.
> 
> This again does not seem to be a problem for KDE users.
> 

It is a problem. The fact that Qt has a GPL-like license has been a
strike against it in many decisions when compared to an LGPL library
like GTK. This has helped GNOME. I can't be more specific, sorry.

Havoc

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