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Dennis E. Hamilton edited comment on COR-11 at 1/17/15 12:17 AM:
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Qt recently came up on the Apache OpenOffice dev list.  I.e., at this thread: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201501.mbox/browser

I suspect that Qt is not usable (directly bolted onto something that is part of 
Corinthia) because of an important constraint with regard to Apache Projects 
(see https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApacheProjectMaturityModel and LC20 
there).  Qt is under what is called a Category X license and having a 
dependency on it is tricky business.  It can work sometimes, but using the Qt 
API everywhere is likely to cross the line into no-no territory.

I am assuming that this issue is not about any use in DocFormat itself, but it 
concerns an edifice atop DocFormat that wants to fit in some GUI framework for 
surfacing an User Interface.

Are these meant to be nearly-orthogonal considerations (or, in the 
Model-View-Controller sense, DocFormat is the layer at which the Model 
subsists, with View-Controller above)?


was (Author: orcmid):
Qt recently came up on the Apache OpenOffice dev list.  I.e., at this thread: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201501.mbox/browser

I suspect that Qt is not usable because of an important constraint with regard 
to Apache Projects (see 
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApacheProjectMaturityModel and LC20 there).  
Qt is under what is called a Category X license and having a dependency on it 
is tricky business.  It can work sometimes, but using the Qt API everywhere is 
likely to cross the line into no-no territory.

I am assuming that this issue is not about any use in DocFormat itself, but it 
concerns an edifice atop DocFormat that wants to fit in some GUI framework for 
surfacing an User Interface.

Are these meant to be nearly-orthogonal considerations (or, in the 
Model-View-Controller sense, DocFormat is the layer at which the Model 
subsists, with View-Controller above)?

> Make interface between docformat and webkit (prepare for e.g. Qt).
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COR-11
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COR-11
>             Project: Corinthia
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>         Environment: source
>            Reporter: jan iversen
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> We need a API to the library



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