Re: KDE hurts Qt (was Re: LICENSES)

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> wrote:
> This is the really sad part about this whole mess. Qt is a nice
> library. Non-free, but not everything has to be free. But because of
> the refusal of the KDE developers to FIX THE KDE LICENSE PROBLEMS, a
> lot of people are being turned off of Qt! Qt doesn't deserve this, and
> I think the KDE team should: 1) fix their license problems, and 2)
> apologize to Trolltech.

I think they should fix their license problems, but I do not think that an
apology is warranted.  After all, the Qt license explicitly *encourages*
application developers to license their code with the GPL.

If anybody should apologize, it's Trolltech.  [If they choose.]

-- 
Raul