On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would > make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take > any more steps.
I think this is a good idea, but I don't see it gaining a whole lot of momentum anytime soon. The Qt license is somewhat restrictive, but not badly enough so where people are going to get gung ho about this. I would like to hear some thoughts on the complexity of cloning Qt. It seems like it would be a lot easier than say.. the Lesstif project. I've compiled some programs with Qt, but I have stayed away from the Qt source code in case there ever was a project like this that I would want to contribute to. Also, some thoughts on how much of a moving target Qt is would be nice to hear. :) I think I understand where Bruce is coming from on this. I'm extremely thrilled about the KDE project. Linux has needed something unifying like this for a long time. It does concern me that one company has a lot of control over what looks like it will become the de facto library for creating graphical interfaces under Linux. -douglas