Re: Integrate VMware and Gnome

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

Dennis Lee <mudpup@telepath.com> writes:

> Regis Duchesne wrote:
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > Cool title eh? I'm in charge of making sure that VMware installs on
> > Linux as beautifully as it does on Windows, and I have a few questions
> > and remarks about this. I know this mail is long. My goal is triple:
> > 
> >  . I don't want to annoy you
> > 
> >  . I want to solve a real-world case: a third party company wants to
> >    install its product on top of your software, and I want to make sure that
> >    it is possible without you needing an access to that third company
> >    sources. 
> 
> I should not say this: but you want the gnome developers to share there
> hard work (source code), and give you technical help, so your closed
> source product will....?

One of the reasons GNOME was started was the Qt license.  The GNOME 
libraries have intentionally been licensed under the GNU LGPL so that
proprietary applications can be written using them.

Jacob
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