Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 6th Aug 2005 08:30 UTC, submitted by tbutler
In a series of articles (part I, part II) during the month of July, OfB's Timothy R. Butler explained why he felt that KDE needed to move beyond the Qt toolkit it uses as a foundation. In that series, he asserted that the licensing of Qt is becoming a stumbling block to the desktop's adoption. Eric Laffoon, the project lead for KDE's Kdewebdev module, takes exception to Butler's arguments and makes the case for his view on the issue of Qt at OfB.biz.
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2005-06-29
Err, not they don't - and their comments prove it conclusively. Try reading them.
Listen, here is the criteria
"The LSB license criteria currently states,
The component should have at least one compliant implementation
available under an Open Source license that also promotes a "No
Strings Attached" environment for developers. This means that the
developer would be able to develop and deploy their software however
they choose using at least one standard implementation. This is
interpreted to mean that at least one implementation is available
under a license that meets the Open Source Definition but it does not
prohibit propriatry usage. The rationale for this criteria is very
similar to that of the LGPL."
So Trolltech's business model and the criteria don't mesh. You don't have to like it, but that's just fact.
Granted, there was some guy from IBM who thought it was a royalty based license, but there was a march conference call where anybody that is involved should have had the licensing issues cleared up. Once again, the bottom line is that you have to pay Trolltech to write closed source apps.
Errr, yer! And moving out of the hobbyist phase means talking less crap, which you and others consistently don't do. People out in the world who aren't hobbyists simply don't care about the stuff you do. Your point is?
But once again, Sun, RedHat and Novell have made substantial investments in Gnome. So obviously some people that aren't hobbysists do care.
As for the Novell situation. Yes, I understand that you absolutely hate that Novell bought Ximian and has a bunch of people working on Gnome and Mono.
Yawn.
Translation - yes, I do hate that Novell bought Ximiam and spending money on Gnome and Mono, but I'll act like I don't care.
But why did Novell buy Ximian in the first place if Novell uses Qt in all its core products?
Because they're stupid. It's not unheard of.
First it was "yawn", now it's "because they were stupid". But of course you know more than Novell.