>>>>> "larry" == larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
larry> The problem here is not with the GPL, but with the Trolltech larry> business model and licensing practices, which puts open source larry> applications under the GPL in this untenable position if larry> developers wish to release Windows versions. Well we always have the Qt/X11 GPL version on windows. It is less convenient, but purely GPL. Actually, I guess that Ruurd's port could just run with that. larry> Almost two years ago (?) I raised questions on this list (with larry> strident language that I later came to regret; my apologies) larry> about all the time, effort and (IMHO) diversion from potential larry> enhancements, involved in making LyX "toolkit independent". larry> I was rather shrill about the QT effort, in particular. In larry> light of Trolltech's dual support for Unix and Windows, the QT larry> frontend has always seemed destined to run aground on precisely larry> this issue of linking against non-commercial libraries. Well, larry> here we are. You conveniently forget that the Qt interface brought us a native Mac OS X interface (and perfectly GPL) with little or no effort. JMarc
