On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Alastair Houghton wrote:
> On Sunday 14 April 2002 14:53, William M. Perry wrote:
>
> Thanks....if he got something then i hope we can work
> together.....as soon as
> i got time i want to experiment also, i think making a port of xemacs
> in qt
> is a good idea, xemacs would take full advantage of all the qt-features,
> speaking of which i got a little question, xemacs beta cant see the
> truetype
> fonts in my machine, why is that ?? im using XFree-4.1 with the XRender
> and
> freetype support.....is it because there's no explicit linkage of
> xemacs with
> freetype ??
>
You'll have to be a little bit careful with this one; according to the
information about GTK XEmacs, QPL'd software can't be linked with GPL'd
software without the consent of *all* of the copyright holders (at
least, that's RMS' stance). Personally I think a QT port would be a good
thing, but I think it is very unlikely (since QT isn't proper Free
Software) that the FSF (one of the major copyright holders) would agree
to a QT port.
Sorry, I don't believe this is correct, QT is licensed under GPL and is
free software. It is not GNU software though. RMS doesn't seem to think
that a QT port of, e.g., emacs would worthwile though.