I'm not going to get into the debate at all at the moment however as I was reading through it I noticed that this message did not match the signature, would someone care to varify who actualy sent this message and what the contents were when it was signed? Thanks. Zephaniah E, Hull. On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 03:35:18PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:35:31PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > non-free license. Neither I, nor anyone sensible, has any argument with > > > TT's license...it's their software, they can do what they like with it.) > > > > That doesn't mean everyone else ise sensible. I've seen many people DEMAND > > Troll Tech release Qt under the GPL. I wanted to take a large cluebat to > > their heads for the reasons you cite above. > > i agree. people who bash Troll over Qt are missing the point. Worse, > they are clouding the issue. > > IMO, Troll Tech are beyond reproach. they wrote a good library, and > they allow people to use it for free in certain circumstances. while i > would be happy to see it under an Open Source-compatible license, nobody > has any right to demand that they do anything....that's like demanding > caviar from a good neighbour when they give you a sandwich. > > the only right you have here is to choose to accept their generosity or > choose not to accept it. > > I personally choose not to accept it (the license isn't compatible with > what i want to do with free software...also, I don't like C++ :), but i'm > grateful for the offer all the same. > > > craig > > -- > craig sanders
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