Integrative work

Benjamin Meyer ben at meyerhome.net
Thu Dec 18 04:29:56 GMT 2003


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On Wednesday 17 December 2003 11:23 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2003 20:07, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > > The KDE people should attract more commercial development as well.
> > > AFAIK, the KDE libs are GPL, and so they discourage commercial
> > > development, forcing devels to use only Qt.  Maybe, just maybe, all
> > > that is needed is a special permission to link against proprietary apps
> > > in the KDE libs GPL license, and you should be set.  Perhaps the LGPL
> > > is more appropriate.
> >
> > Hmm last I checked they were lgpl'd
>
> Yes. Everyone spreading anything else is spreading BS.
>
> Ralf
>
> > -Benjamin Meyer

Well one thing is that the kdelibs arn't currently exactly portable.  Although 
that is changing in the past/currently they were very reliant on Unix/X11 
stuff.  Thus for Windows/Mac Qt developers they wouldn't touch the kdelibs.

- -Benjamin Meyer

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