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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Member since:"You don't like KDE? Fine, leave it alone. You want to use QT, one of the best toolkits out there? Either write Free Software, or pay the license. It's as simple as that. Don't want to pay for writing propietary apps? Use something else, but quit whining."
Well, not everybody is a developer - the author of the article isn't - so he does NOT want to use QT to develop apps. He merely "whines" about the license isssue preventing _others_ from writing QT apps. In fact that's a legitimate 'fear' anyone who really likes KDE may have. It all depends on what you want or need. KDE could be 'the thing' for him, but because others can't use it (license) it COULD be better... well, you ge the idea.
Member since:2005-07-06
Well, not everybody is a developer - the author of the article isn't - so he does NOT want to use QT to develop apps. He merely "whines" about the license isssue preventing _others_ from writing QT apps. In fact that's a legitimate 'fear' anyone who really likes KDE may have. It all depends on what you want or need. KDE could be 'the thing' for him, but because others can't use it (license) it COULD be better... well, you ge the idea.
KDE developers are not worried at all, and they know better than me. Why should I, as a user? At least they know what to use and have a direction. Gnome people still has to decide if they are going to use Java, Mono, or stick with C (which they won't get them anywhere)
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"the KDE Project should consider abandoning Qt for the eventual release of KDE 4"
[/i]"...either wrapping KDE around another library, such as GTK+, or perhaps simply building a better, Qt compatible, library in the same vein as the old Harmony project that sought to do just that in the KDE 1.x era"[/i]
This guy don't know what he is talking about, or he is just spreading FUD. This is getting really, really old and boring.
You don't like KDE? Fine, leave it alone. You want to use QT, one of the best toolkits out there? Either write Free Software, or pay the license. It's as simple as that. Don't want to pay for writing propietary apps? Use something else, but quit whining.