Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 6th Jul 2005 06:25 UTC, submitted by Timothy R. Butler
Qt Thinking on the issue of licensing and KDE, an old hymn came to the mind of OfB's Tim Butler. "As it was in the beginning, is now, And ever shall be…" Yes, the issue of licensing has been a perennial problem for the Free/Open Source desktop and he suggests its biggest licensing issue remains: the GPL. Read more at OfB.biz
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"Why do people demand from the KDE project to also care about proprietary companies' interest? Can't those talk and deal themselves with Trolltech!? Make a special contract with Trolltech or if you are a big company put the money where your mouth is and buy Trolltech." Because people are users. User of KDE maybe. User want a broad range of applicatins available.
The Qt license kind of limits this. Simple enough?

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