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Re: GPL only
by protoman on Wednesday 18/Jun/2003, @03:41

Well said. I can't understand people complaining about Trolltech desisions.
Trolltech is free to, to make the decisions they like or think are right, this includes excluding other licences other than GPL.

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Re: GPL only
by David Johnson on Wednesday 18/Jun/2003, @11:02

<snip>I can't understand people complaining about Trolltech desisions.</snip>

When Microsoft recently released a license that said in essence "you can't use the GPL", the community was outraged. But when Trolltech says "you must use the GPL" it's okay. I don't see the fundamental difference between the two.

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Re: GPL only
by protoman on Wednesday 18/Jun/2003, @11:35

Yep, agreed.
I think M$ should release anything they have in any license they wish, if this don't brake the law (or previous licenses), I don't see why so much complaining arround there.

And remember people defends GPL agains the "viral" speech from M$ but attacks m$ right to do the shared source....

I don't like BSD, I think it's bad (don't worry to reply about this, keep reading...), but that just me. I won't even say anything besides this from anyone who wants to use BSD, and I must always enphasis the "I" in the statement. Simply saying BSD is bad/GPL is bad isn't a nice thing, always remember it's just YOUR option and fights will diminish or vanish.

Peace people!

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Re: GPL only
by tuxo on Thursday 19/Jun/2003, @06:31

>But when Trolltech says "you must use the GPL" it's okay. I don't see the >fundamental difference between the two.
The difference is that forcing GPL serves many people, while not allowing GPL serves mainly one big company, in this case M$.

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