Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD!

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Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @14:03

I could (and didn't had patience) for saying it better.

Basically Trolltech have the freedom to choose the license they want for QT, and KDE have the freedom to choose the toolkit they wish, and we have te freedom to develop using libs, toolkits and plataform we like most.

Saying that KDE *must* change it's license because someone dosen't like how it works, is simply saying that KDE or Trolltech or me or you dosen't have the right to choose a license that they/we belive is better, what is cutting or freedom of choise.

I choise GPL for all my free/non-commercial software because I like the fact that no one can use or fork my code without releasing the code ahead.

So, let's live with the Trolltech and KDE team choises and respect their desision. If you don't like this, please, go ahead and use something else.

And about companies not using QT/KDE that not what I'm seeing, see The Kompany, IBM and Adobe examples. Yes, Sun and others are choising Gnome over KDE, but that's their choise that I respect, as I respect the users that get those systems and install KDE on it (see solaris example),

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