Some more thoughts on khtml

fenix at club-internet.fr fenix at club-internet.fr
Mon Jan 20 16:56:22 CST 2003


>De: Adam Treat <manyoso at yahoo.com>
>Sujet: Re: Re: Some more thoughts on khtml
>A: Adam Treat <manyoso at yahoo.com>
>Copie à: wine-devel at winehq.com, qt-interest at trolltech.com
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 06:28:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- Adam Treat <manyoso at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> --- fenix at club-internet.fr wrote:
>> > >Why not just port the GPL version of Qt to Windows?  The kde-cygwin project is doing that
>> > And, i don't like the port idea, because trolltech use Qt under windows as main product, and
>> > porting the GPL version to windows ...
>> 
>> *sigh* yes, i agree this is a problem.  I don't want to hurt Trolltech, I just wish Qt could be
>> used as a GPL cross-platform lib.  Am still looking for a creative solution that would work for
>> both Trolltech and the community, so if anyone has any ideas... ;)
>
>hehe, maybe Trolltech could release a 'Shared Source' version of Qt for windows... It'd allow
>people to try Qt (the latest version) and prohibit commercial software...  After all, when on a
>different platform 'do as the locals do' ;)

As they have released a limited time free version for windows (only for non-commercial projects), i think they won't release a 'shared source' version :(

Raphael




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