On 9/12/05, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/11/05, Stefan Teleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please stop posting erroneous information. > > It is not erroneus information.
Yes, it is. > For all practical purposes, since the > very base toolkit of KDE is Qt, and you must license Qt from Trolltech > for any major commercial applications (be serious, who releases major > desktop commercial applications like Photoshop as GPL?) you have to > pay what I and many others call the "Trolltech Tax" by licensing Qt so > you don't have to GPL your software. GNOME does not require this. GNOME is not GPL V2? http://www.gnome.org/about/ "GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project, dedicated to giving users and developers the ultimate level of control over their desktops, their software, and their data. Find out more about the GNU project and Free Software at gnu.org." > For small businesses that write commercial software and don't want to GPL > it, you are *forced* to license Qt if you want to make a native KDE > application. Hence terming it a "tax". This is simply not true. KDE is released under GPL V2, just as GNOME. The QT version used by KDE is released under GPL V2, just as GNOME. I don't believe i need to rehash the terms and conditions of the GPL. Please stop posting erroneous information. Thank you. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
