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Re: [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: Open Source license for Qt]
Yannai A. Gonczarowski writes:
> Will this bring us a little closer towards the end of the GNOME/KDE war?
>
> > TROLL TECH ANNOUNCES PLANS TO MAKE NEXT GENERATION OF Qt OPEN SOURCE
Nope. Just look on gnome-devel, or on debian-devel. The license
debates continue in full speed. Apparently there are some issues with
this new license as well - in particular, the fact that patches
(derived works) are to be distributed under a different license from
the core, which is not compatible with the Open Source Definition.
Many say though that it's a bug in the latter and not a Qt license
problem.
This whole business suddens me, mostly because this will probably hurt
the GNOME development. It'd be better if Qt would just remain
proprietary and KDE would gradually die as it should have.
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