Re: A gtk/kde-xemacs... a modest toolbar/menubar proposal...

SL Baur <steve(a)etl.go.jp&gt; writes: > William M Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com&gt; 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.