Re: Fw: Qt/KDE Xemacs

Bill> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >> Bill> I told him to join xemacs-beta, and that XEmacs/Qt would be doable. It Bill> would arguably make a better cross-platform toolkit for windows / mac / unix Bill> than GTK. Bill> And seeing it run on the Qt framebuffer would be worth every ounce of energy Bill> spent doing the port. :) XEmacs on the iPaq.... hmmm... >> Do keep in mind that the FSF considers XEmacs/Qt illegal. I happen to >> disagree with that, and believe that Motif and Qt are functionally at the >> same level - if you can use one, you can use the other. However, >> XEmacs/Qt might become *the* politically controversial application in the >> free software world (but that's good for publicity!). >> From >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html Bill> Well, the trolls have released all of the code as dual-licensed now. You Bill> can choose either QPL or _real_ GPL. So people will finally argue about Qt Bill> and GTK on technical merits, like OO just rocks and C sucks, instead of Bill> about licensing terms. :) Bill> The Free Edition is the Qt for Unix/X11 toolkit, licensed for development Bill> of free/Open Source software. It includes the complete source code. As of Bill> version 2.2, it is freely available under both the GPL and the QPL Open Bill> Source licenses. Apparently I didn't read my own post thoroughly. Qt/GPL is indeed good news. If Qt is a C++-only thing, you (Ravikiran) should be aware that XEmacs is "C++-ready", that is, I have been using a C++ compiler to build XEmacs for years. Good Luck creating XEmacs/Qt.