Re: QT non-free but becoming compatible to debian? (was Re: Qt license change)

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Fri Nov 20 15:20:47 1998

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 03:38:08AM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Why?  Doesn't Qt deserve Motif-like status as a system library?  Motif
> 
> We don't have any such magic libraries to date. We don't have a standard
> Motif system library, either. 

Exactly, which is why there is a void to be filled, IHHO.  In this day
and time we need GUI APIs that developers can target.  Qt and GTK+
both qualify and both have their points.

Btw, I clearly see mozilla-smotif in:

http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/

So might you be wrong about the Motif thing?

-N.