Re: OT: ANN: Kura 1.0 released

> Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2001 07:15:27 +0100
> From: Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> >
> > RMS would say, "told you so." The GTk people were right.
> >
>
> Philosophically, yes, perhaps, but technically they made a mess of it,
> and the user-interaction of GTK is bad, too. Besides, it won't run on
> Windows either.
Philosophical rectitude does not engender technical eptitude.
Regrettable but true.

> > And I suppose it's somehow illegal for someone else to port the GPL'ed
> > UNIX version of Qt to Windows, too?
>
> No, that's obviously not illegal, since the Qt/X11 source code
> is GPL'ed.
Right. I forgot the GPL had changed, back in the old days you had to
offer source code if your product included any GPL'ed components at
all.

Or is the point that the generic Qt code in the Windows version is
under a different license than the same code in the UNIX version? And
they never ever included any bug fixes or improvements from the net
that they didn't buy the copyright for off the contributor?

I guess I'll have to stay away from that scene, I don't understand it.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)