RE: Qt Xemacs ??
What's the big deal here? Motif is not free, why should we care about the
license status of Qt. Indeed Windows is not free either, seems illogical
that rms allows a port of emacs to that platform.
andy
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From: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org
[mailto:xemacs-beta-adminï¼ xemacs.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Harris
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:32 AM
To: Stephen J. Turnbull
Cc: Rodolfo Conde Martinez; Simon Josefsson; xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Qt Xemacs ??
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
...
> You show me that Qt is GPL on Windows, make sure that XEmacs cannot
> link with non-GPLed Qt on any platform, and/or get an OK from rms
> _first_, and I'll consider managing the integration. You'll have to
> find somebody else to do the scutwork if you submit patches without
> rms's name on the dotted line. Life is too short to have a fight with
> rms over code I don't really care about.
Assuming you've characterised rms's position correctly, wouldn't a
simple check in configure to make --with-qt fail in the presence of
--with-msw and/or when the configuration is *-pc-cygwin* solve the
problem. Or am I being naieve?
Jonathan.
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