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Re: [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: Open Source license for Qt]



Alex Shnitman wrote:
> 
> 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.

Nope, It should have been better if we had (and we have) a choice
between
KDE and gnome, each as he likes !!!

> 
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