Ricardo Ferreira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Jo Dillon wrote:
> >
> > Ok, well you've probably all seen the news about Qt going open-source
> > now. Do we have agreement that we should cease development on Harmony
> > as it now stands? Anyone who thinks we should continue, speak now;
> > if we do decide to kill Harmony then I can start doing some coding
> > with Qt at work :)
> >
>
> Absolutely not! I'm not a coder in Harmony. Just a very interested user
> of KDE/QT, but as i understand it, the QPL still does not allow the
> development of commercial apps with QT Free Edition. Many may not like
> commercial apps, but everyone agrees that if Linux is to be successful
> in the desktop we have to be attractive to commercial apps. GTK doesn't
> have this problem because it is LGPL. All this license change does is
> permit you to supply patches to Qt. My main gripe with the license of Qt
> was and is the fact i pointed out above.
Well, this is true, but any commercial company can afford Qt's charges.
I really don't think the Qt fees will deter companies from developing
for Linux. I personally have always seen this side of things as a rather
minor problem, and for that matter RMS said in discussions earlier
that a GPL'd Harmony would be perfectly acceptable, even though that wouldn't
allow commercial Harmony development at all.
--
Jo
Harmony - the project to create an LGPL Qt clone
http://harmony.ruhr.de
