Star When OSS-based Corporations and (some) OSS Hackers Clash
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
Editorial A KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
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Nullify QT
by Jon Smirl on Thu 13th Mar 2003 18:41 UTC

If Redhat has such a problem with the QT licenses, why don't they just clone QT, release it LGPL then join KDE? That would be a lot less work than building a parallel environment.

I do agree that it is not in Linux's best interest to have a core GUI kit require licenses($$) when writing non-GPL code.