On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:03, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ely Levy wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Here is my opinion: any one of this 3sounds cool. I put here only the
> > > > > downsides of each approach.
> > > > >
> > > > > gtk:
> > > > > * not object oriented (looks un-natural to build gui's in no oop language)
> > > > > * looks funkey on win32
> > > > >
> > > > > qt:
> > > > > * not free inwin32
> > > > Actually it is now.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Free as in speech? I don't think so. Care to enlighten us?
> >
For the record, I was referring to the Win32 version, not the UNIX/X11
one.
> > Isn't it dual licensed as GPL/QPL?Doesn't GPL mean free as in
> > speech?
> >
>
> Don't know QPL and correct me if I am wrong, but I thinkthat programs
> that include GPL code have to be released under GPL license
Correct, any inclusive work of GPL code makes the entire file GPLed.
> in which
> case you can only use qt under windows for open source software as a
> free toolkit (has its points I admit. If you are going to earn money for
> you program, you might aswell pay for the usage of the toolkit).
I don't understand what you mean exactly. Care to explain?
> Although I believe that if you use dynamic linking you can still mix GPL
> and closed source (as you are not actually including the source in you
> program).
Actually, the GPL is not entirely clear about it. But according to the
FSF-advocated interpretation a closed source program cannot link against a
GPL library. (statically or dynamically)
> Thats whats supposed to enable distributing closed source
> kernel modules.
Actually, that is Linus Torvalds' interpretation of the GPL that allows
it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Shlomi Fish
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ely
> >
> > behdad
> >
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Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting
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