[kde-solaris] Re: KDE on Solaris Companion CD

[Eva Brucherseifer]

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On Monday 24 February 2003 19:55, LeBar, Russell wrote:
> Right. The Qt licensing issue is not that it hurts Sun directly but that =
it
> might discourage some vendors from developing for the platform. But I'm n=
ot
> sure if I really buy into that theory.=20

This wasn't ment to be a theory ;-) I just wanted to clearify the QT licenc=
ing=20
question. I don't know what the reasons for SUN's choice are. Maybe Gnome h=
ad=20
a better timing or was more present in the US than KDE. Maybe it's because=
=20
KDE is rather anarchistic with no real person to talk to or any other reaso=
n.=20
Maybe Eric can tell us more?

> It's unfortunate the way things went
> since right now KDE is looking like the better desktop.

I never used Gnome, so I cannot compare, but I know, that Windows users hav=
e=20
no problem to switch to a KDE desktop and they often like it better. I don'=
t=20
think we need to mention CDE in this comparison ;-)

Greetings,
eva

>
> -- Russ LeBar x3355
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eva Brucherseifer [mailto:eva@kde.org]
>
> On Monday 24 February 2003 19:22, LeBar, Russell wrote:
> > -- Russ LeBar x3355
> >
> > I've heard that Qt licensing issues and most of the programmers know C
> > but not C++ (or not as well). I'm not sure if I buy into the Qt licensi=
ng
>
> issue
>
> > though since didn't developers have to buy a Motif license for CDE?
>
> QT is dual-licensed with QPL and GPL and you can choose which license to
> use.
>
> This means: As long as your code is opensource, you don't have to get a
> license. If you want to develop commercial code under your own license,
> then
>
> every developer needs to buy a commercial QT license.
>
> Greetings,
> eva
>
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