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Re: libQtCore licensing ?
by aleXXX on Saturday 10/Jul/2004, @02:17

No, I don't think. Then this community would have to follow everything Qt does. Why should we try to take trolltech the business away ? It would be one of the most stupid things we could do.
But LGPLing libQtCore probably wouldn't take any business away from the trolls, but make QtCore an alternative even for closed source apps.
Nobody will buy QtCore if he just wants to write some small tool without GUI and stuff I guess. The business is mainly in the GUI and extensions I think

Alex

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Re: libQtCore licensing ?
by M on Saturday 10/Jul/2004, @05:39

I agree that a lgpl qt-core would be nice. I have rewritten a few Qt classes myself using another C++ library as foundation, and it was not so hard. Maybe one day...

I am not so much annoyed by the fact that Qt is under the GPL and I have to pay to write closed source software, but rather by the fact that Qt is not developed more aggressively. I find it problematic that Qt already depends on glib for instance. This can lead to making the competitors product (Glib/Gtk/Gnome) the de-facto standard and themselves irrelevant.

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Re: libQtCore licensing ?
by aleXXX on Saturday 10/Jul/2004, @06:01

Which part of Qt depends on glib ? At least the "ldd mainwindow" didn't show glib.

Alex

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