qt license

Posted Dec 18, 2003 8:34 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: qt license by ken_i_m
Parent article: 2003 Linux Timeline: December

Yes yes. I was not trying to imply, that Bruce's decision is completely illogical and
laughable. Having a proprietary-friendly Linux is ok with me, and GPL'd libraries is a
problem if you want to take that route.

I'm just saying, that when put in perspective, this development is truly historical. I mean
a quote like that would also encompass the historical facts of Qt once not being GPL,
all the arguments about that, leading to the birth of Gnome in the first place, a lot of
other things (some too nasty to mention here), and then the release of Qt as GPL. We
have gone thru all these things together, and now someone says that Qt is a problem
because it's GPL. In the short history of Linux, one could almost classify "the story
about the gnus and the trolls" as one of epical (is that a correct transformation of the
word epic?) magnitudes.

(And additionally we should not forget the fact, that Bruce being the person saying this
thing, put's some irony into the story. The greeks have Oidipus, we have Qt. Hmm...
perhaps that's not a good comparison, I don't see this as a tragedy. Forget that, it
doesn't fit.)

henrik