Re: Qt Freed!
--On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 5:19 pm +0000 "David Damerell"
<damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> jim@jimpick.com:
>>http://www.troll.no/
>>:-)
>>(Of course, I have doubts whether or not it is compatible with the GPL
>>- but that's a moot point if the KDE guys change their license as
>>well)
>
> Qt not freed. It's not compatible with the DFSG/ Open Source Definition,
> and the Open Source people may well be pissy about the misuse of their
> trademark. It looks like an attempt to placate us without actually
> preventing Troll Tech from charging commercial application developers,
> which has, IMAO, been their aim all along.
>
> It might be good enough to get Qt into nonfree and KDE into contrib,
> though.
Since the consensus here is that it *is* DFSG compliance, would you like to
point as at the conflict?
Jules
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