Re: Free QT?

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "J" == Joel Dillon <emily@cornholio.new.ox.ac.uk> writes:

J> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Joshua Spoerri wrote:
>> This has probably been beaten into the ground, but can someone
>> please tell me quickly:
>> 
>> If LGPL code may be incorporated into commercial software, but GPL
>> code requires derivative works to be free, how is qt's license
>> practically more restrictive than the GPL?

J>   We can't modify Qt's libraries and then distribute them to other
J> people.

And just to demonstrate the importance of that, for months KDE has
been plagued by repeated core dumps on 8-bit displays.  For months,
they've known that it was a color deallocation problem in Qt.  But
nothing could be done about it.... 

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