Re: Proposed license policy

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 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

This was one of the reasons why Mozilla originally used Gtk instead of Qt.

--Chris

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