Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]
> It's really a shame KDE chose the GPL. Many BSD people will tell you the
> GPL is the most restrictive free software license there is. It's the only
> widely used free license that prohibits use with a library like Qt under any
> circumstances at all. No special exception for system libraries, but rather
> the code is free and use it how you want.
A BSD license would have solved the problem nicely. No GPL code would have
been available to "be stolen" (subject to your license viewpoint) and no
GPL authors upset.
And by now Sun would no doubt be shipping a binary only KDE that forbid
you to redistribute it and contained fixes you couldnt get back off them
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