Re: Qt not truly Free Software yet (?)

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:41:38PM -0600, Shawn Leas wrote:
> > Qt is not truly free yet.  One key characteristic of Free Software is to 
> > allow code reuse, and QPL does not allow reuse of Qt's code (i.e, you cannot 
> > take a part of Qt and put it into another program like porting the painting
> > interface to gtk). 
> > 
> > QPL is taking advantage of a bug in the Open source definition.
> 
> This discussion is OVER.  The authers of what is now known as
> Open Source have put their stamp of approval on it.

"The authers of what is now known as Open Source" can shove their stamp
where it hurts the most ... they should read the license ...

but I agree that the discussion is over .. it has been over for a long
time ... it's just that nobody seems to agree upon it's results

George

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