(again) XEmacs in Kdevelop - a theorethical statment

[Richard Moore]

holle at almaden.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> I remember reading an email stating something like
> <fuzzy qoute>
> we cannot link emacs/xemacs against the Qt and KDE widgets since it would be
> against the GPL
> </fuzzy qoute>
> ...
> So if that is so, why is there an XEmacs linked to Motif ? And you can even
> download semi-static and full-static linked Motif-XEmacs'en.

It's a system library, there is a get out clause in the GPL for this,
the same applies to Qt/KDE on almost all Linux dists now.

> 
> I do not see the point. (X)Emacs is free, nobody charges money for it. For *nix
> Qt is free as long as you do not want to sell your product for money. (X)Emacs
> is already "multi-widget" aware, meaning, it can be linked against Athena with
> or without additional widgets and it can use Motif as an alternative.
> 
> So why can't we "port" a part of (X)Emacs to Qt/KDE and the integrate it into
> Kdevelop ? I think Kdevelop and KDE both would get a publicity boost when that
> happens.

AFAIK you can.

Rich.

> 
> - holger

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