On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:00:51PM -0800, David Johnson wrote: > Joe Drew wrote: > > > It's hard to say what the intention of rms was on this. > > I may be wrong, not being able to see into Richard's mind, but I would > hazard a guess. It's so that Free Software can be written for and ported > to nonfree operating systems. The nearest nonfree equivalents to Qt > would be Motif and MFC. And in both cases there are GPLd applications > using them with no legal hassles at all. Prescisly. It would have been hard to run any GNU stuff without this clause before the first free libc's, which came about ten years after the first GNU programs. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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