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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM]
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:17:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF85D74.5020500@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A920234CD34@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com>



Downing, Thomas wrote:

> 
> No, they don't.  KDE uses the GPL for QT.  If I build a commercial
> app using KDE, it is GPL.  If I build a commercial app not using
> KDE, but using commercial QT, that has no effect on the KDE desktop.
>  


I'm over 1100 emails behind here, so please excuse me if I'm repeating 
what someone else said.

But are you implying, by analogy, that if I were to write a program 
using GTK+ that the application would be forced to be under GPL?  So I 
can't write a closed-source GNOME program?  Or is GTK under LGPL?

Anyhow, I see little problem with the Qt model.  If I'm writing a 
closed-source commercial app that I'm going to sell, it's no skin off my 
nose to pay TrollTech a little money to use their toolkit, considering 
that I'm probably going to need some support anyhow.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-19 17:37 Downing, Thomas
2003-06-19 18:58 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 19:08   ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-19 19:30     ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 19:38       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-19 19:41       ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-19 19:48         ` Robert L. Harris
2003-06-19 20:18       ` Erik Hensema
2003-06-20 12:15         ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 21:06       ` Richard Braakman
2003-06-19 19:31     ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-19 19:44       ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-21  6:29 ` John K Luebs
2003-06-21  7:20   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-06-24 14:17 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-06-24 15:41   ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-06 16:22 SCO's claims seem empty Paul Rolland
2003-06-19 13:03 ` Sco vs. IBM Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-19 13:14   ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 14:14     ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-19 16:34       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-06-19 16:59         ` Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Larry McVoy
2003-06-19 17:13           ` ismail (cartman) donmez

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