Re: A gtk/kde-xemacs... a modest toolbar/menubar proposal...
Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
SL Baur <steve(a)etl.go.jp> writes:
> William M Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> ...
> > But, using Qt would bring in horrendous licensing issues.
>
> Please. Not this again. I thought the Qt licensing issue was dead
> with Qt-2.0.
Qt 2.0 (QPL) did change the political situation, as it is now under a
certified Open Source license. However, the legal situation is
exectly the same as before. The legal problem has never been with the
Qt license, but with the GPL. It still depends on whether the law
would consider Qt to fall under this clause:
GPL> However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need
GPL> not include anything that is normally distributed (in either
GPL> source or binary form) with the major components (compiler,
GPL> kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the
GPL> executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the
GPL> executable.
An alternative to betting on what the law would say, is to get a "special
exception" from the copyright holder.
Hmmm... what does that 'unless that component itself accompanies the
executable'? mean exactly? Would you just need to ship a copy of Qt with
the executable? Grumble grumble.
-Bill P.