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Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> writes:

>drf03@uow.edu.au (Daniel Robert Franklin)
>> GNOME will be using as much KDE as possible. I would much rather use an 
>> equivalently functional GNOME as opposed to KDE - I don't like having Qt 
>> on my system when there are better libraries avaliable.

>What better things are available?

Well, Gtk for one. It is at least as easy to use as QT and is not 
restricted to C++ (though C++ can be used). I can also sell commercial 
software based on it without having to pay anyone thousands of dollars for 
the pleasure.

>> If Qt was under a 
>> true free licence then things would be different. Why don't they place 
>> old versions under GPL like Aladdin Ghostscript?

>If we

> - wanted developers to still struggle with and work around the bugs
>   we fixed last year
> - wanted more bug reports and support mail for those bugs
> - wanted potential customers to see old versions of Qt rather than
>   the latest and greatest

>then we would have done that.

Funny. Doesn't seem to have impeded the development of Ghostscript, or 
for that matter, Linux. Why don't you just say, "version 1.0 (say) is now 
avaliable under the GPL. It is totally unsupported. If you want the 
newest version it is avaliable for free under Unix." Indicate this clearly 
in the documentation supplied. I would happily use Qt if I could get it 
under such an arrangement, and third-party mailing lists and newsgroups 
would be all the support I need. This would immediately neutrilize all 
the criticism of Troll Tech by GPL purists (such as myself) and allow its 
use by a wider range of people. Don't get me wrong - I think Qt is great 
- technically (if you don't mind C++) but the license means that I will 
not use it for any software that I develop. Many others feel the same 
way.

If you think the GPL is too restrictive, try the BSD license or something 
similar. At least they are *really* Free Software, as opposed to free 
software.
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