Re: Qt Xemacs ??

> 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.