free speach and KDE

Jim farli@wiredglobal.com
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:58:11 -0700


The biggest issue for a software developer who hopes to create a product
with commercial value is which wodget toolset to use.  If it were me, I
certainly would be more concerned about the need to license the widget
toolset before I was able to market my product..  The choice is not that
hard.  GNOME/Gtk/Gdk - GNU vs QT and the Troll licence restrictions.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> just ran into some interesting things about why KDE isn't included in
> debian and thought I'd pass on a few links for those who are concerned
> with the rights guaranteed by the GPL.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/06/135218.shtml, note the links to web
> pages with further info about the issue.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html, "free
> software" vs. "open source" from RMS, which has a link to the "free
> software" definition, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/13/1642213.shtml, 5th article down is
> further info from Dr. Günter.
> 
> Just to provide more flame against KDE :),
> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/17/961300740.html. Joseph has posted
> this story in many places in the last year or so.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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Jim

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