Well, the point is that i'm pretty sure that both Trolltech (and the KDE project) would very much like to Qt themed Wine in order to compete in the desktop market so I'm sure it would be possible to get some sort of "deal" somehow.
Perhaps just releasing the Qt drawing primatives implementation under the LGPL would be a solution that would be acceptable to all parties. I can't see Trolltech losing very much from
doing that.
No work at all (except convincing Trolltech to do that).
Hehehe, yeah, that's the hard part, especially as the difference between Qt/X11 and Qt/Win32 is mostly the drawing primitives/window creation code.
Ah OK. Minor problem. :-(
Why can't they make Qt/Win32 GPL:ed as well with the exception of the drawing primitives that have to become LGPL:ed.
They released Qt/X11 under the GPL, since the GPL according to their interpretation will protect them from "free commercial use".
Why not release Qt/Win32 under the GPL as well?
Bah. This is stupid. Before we start adding theming to Wine, I think somebody should at least make an attempt at a unified theming standard. Otherwise we're just going to end up with huge amounts of bloat and duplication in Wine already. A standard system would be much better. No, I don't have time for that :(
Agreed. This is a post 1.0 issue IMHO.
Ah OK. Minor problem. :-(
Why can't they make Qt/Win32 GPL:ed as well with the exception of the drawing primitives that have to become LGPL:ed.
They released Qt/X11 under the GPL, since the GPL according to their interpretation will protect them from "free commercial use".
Why not release Qt/Win32 under the GPL as well?
Not sure, might be worth asking, but I expect it's because they believe they would lose a lot of customers writing internal corporate software for Win32 - if the software is for internal use only, you could just make it GPLd and not pay TT anything. Restricting the free version to a display protocol not well supported on Win32 allows them to make more money.
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