Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-26 Thread Martin Konold
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: Thanks Lars and Craig for your great inputs on the subject. This will be my last follow up to this subject on the mailing lists. I do think that the discussion should not continue on these ml's. If you want to continue you are welcome to join the kde ml,

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-25 Thread juan j casero
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: [ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] This discussion of the Qt copyright is beginning to sound like a flame war. Could we please end it and do something productive instead? I second the motion. Summary:

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-25 Thread Max Hyre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear Debianists: On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: This discussion of the Qt copyright is beginning to sound like a flame war. Could we please end it and do something productive instead? Or, let's move it to debian-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED].

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: No the point is that Qt will be used to make the Unix Desktop Environement. There is no goal so far to port the kde to none unix environments. Portability is not the issue, but nice lookfeel for the unix desktop users. Most kde people do not care

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Herbert Xu
William Burrow wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Yes. However, we still might look askance at Qt due to the other licensing terms, which are more restrictive than the GPL, especially since V (another C++ GUI) is under the GPL. Please understand I'm not making a

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] This discussion of the Qt copyright is beginning to sound like a flame war. Could we please end it and do something productive instead? Summary: - Debian has a policy about copyrights, and it's not likely

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Herbert Xu wrote: This is not the point. They can release it under any license as long as they allow other people to release modified versions, even if it has to be under a different name. This is so that the applications won't get caught when Troll stops releasing

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Herbert Xu
William Burrow wrote: Well, you see, once the source code has been released, it is somewhat like Pandora's box. Programs relying on the old Qt will function as always. Free programs relying on the new, unreleased, pay-for-it Qt... well, there just won't be many of those around. If

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Herbert Xu wrote: like Pandora's box. Programs relying on the old Qt will function as always. Free programs relying on the new, unreleased, pay-for-it Qt... well, there just won't be many of those around. If there were no bugs in that free version. I already

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Buddha M Buck wrote: In any event, Motif is -not- required for Xemacs in the same way that Qt would be required for LyX. True, you may also use Athena widgets. Maybe others too. You did not tell in which respect the Xforms license is less restricting than the Qt

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, William Burrow wrote: While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. This is not the whole story, since it is only

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Richard G. Roberto
This was a _private_ email! How did this wind up on TWO mailing lists? On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Then they can't be GPL'd. You

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread William Burrow
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Yes. However, we still might look askance at Qt due to the other licensing terms, which are more restrictive than the GPL, especially since V (another C++ GUI) is under the GPL. Please understand I'm not making a technical criticisim. I just wish

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Then they can't be GPL'd. You should read the license. It prohibits modification restrictions (which QT has). Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, William Burrow wrote: While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. This is not the whole story, since it is only their X version that is free for non-commercial

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Then they can't be GPL'd. You should read the license. It prohibits modification restrictions (which QT has). Of course the apps CAN be gpled!

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. Not by my reading of the GPL. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Buddha M Buck
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. Not by my reading of the GPL. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Raja R Harinath
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU Emacs to use Motif widgets, and distribute the modified version freely, under the GPL. I am certain that if I were to do

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Martin, As I read this, that unchanged word would prevent us from building a Debian binary package of Qt and distributing that. That's a very serious restriction. Thanks Bruce From: Martin Konold [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll) wrote: As I said wrote

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
: : Martin, : : As I read this, that unchanged word would prevent us from building a : Debian binary package of Qt and distributing that. That's a very serious : restriction. : : Thanks : : Bruce : : From: Martin Konold [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll)

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Martin Konold wrote: On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll) wrote: As I said wrote earlier, the license doesn't limit distribution in any way which is particularly relevant to CD distribution. Quoting: You may copy this version of the Qt toolkit provided that the

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-22 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Martin Konold wrote: On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll) wrote: As I said wrote earlier, the license doesn't limit distribution in any way which is particularly relevant to CD distribution. Quoting: [snip] Ok, I will forward this to the cdrom producers/Debian people. [snip] Oh

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-21 Thread Martin Konold
On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll) wrote: As I said wrote earlier, the license doesn't limit distribution in any way which is particularly relevant to CD distribution. Quoting: You may copy this version of the Qt toolkit provided that the entire archive is distributed