On 31.10.10 17:42:22, Zorael wrote: > I'm not a developer but I thought I'd pipe in. > > Without really touching on how to technically make kdelibs more > modular and which bits to upstream into Qt (although I like the > {tier1,tier2,platform} divisioning proposed in the wiki), I don't see > how this can be done without /donating/ the code to Nokia to use as > they see fit. Obviously this will allow them to sell the code > commercially, which will alienate developers who submitted code and > patches under GPL, who refuse having their code hijacked in such a > way. That's why we have the GPL to begin with, after all. At the end > of the day, Nokia wants to make money.
Except that most (all?) of kdelibs is LGPL, not GPL. So using it for making money/in closed source apps is possible right now under certain conditions. Andreas -- You will inherit some money or a small piece of land.