Star Tech Firms To Tackle Linux Desktop Standards
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:44 UTC
Linux Adobe, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, RealNetworks and Red Hat are all backing the new Linux standards effort led by the Free Standards Group. The nonprofit organisation plans to marshal their resources to form standards for key components of Linux desktop software, including libraries, application runtime and install time. The group said Monday that it will encourage software developers to use its guidelines when building programs for Linux as part of its Linux Standard Base project.
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RE[12]: Qt in the LSB
by amadeo on Tue 18th Oct 2005 18:18 UTC in reply to "RE[11]: Qt in the LSB"
amadeo
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2005-07-06

In other word, is an option "you may" use an separated librarie, so your proect can be reverse enginering free.

Wrong: if you link to the library, you have to allow reverse engineering. If you don't link, than you are free to use any license. See section 5.

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RE[13]: Qt in the LSB
by Manuma on Tue 18th Oct 2005 18:23 in reply to "RE[12]: Qt in the LSB"
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2005-07-28

Wrong: if you link to the library, you have to allow reverse engineering.

I did, the emaning is the same, is still optional.

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