Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:48:09 -0600 (CST) From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130224527.25445B-100000@kai.communique.net> In-Reply-To: <19162.880950917@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan, I'm not objecting to the Qt copyright, and I'm not saying do not use Qt and do not buy Qt ... I'm of the same mind as you regarding it. ... I _am_ saying that software with such licenses should not be used in the implementation of FreeBSD itself or essential FreeBSD utilities, such as sysinstall. Why carry such luggage? Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Only KDE depends upon Qt, which doesn't have an appropriate software > > license. > > Oh, I dunno about this. I think that people should be willing to be > just a bit more flexible where these sorts of "use it for something > free, get it free - use it for something commercial, pay some money" > licenses are concerned since it takes a high degree of flexibility for > any company to even *think* about doing something like this. It's > also fairly clear that getting other companies to adopt similarly > free-software friendly licenses like this, giving access to their full > source code on the net (!) as TrollTech does, won't be made any easier > if the free software people themselves react negatively to the idea > and adopt a strict no-compromise policy. If anything is going to > result in any real changes in this industry, it's going to be a > willingness to compromise on *both* sides of the licensing issue so > that neither "side" feels that the other is trying to force their > ideologies on it at gunpoint. > > I like the Qt copyright and wish Trolltech every degree of success > with it. I'd like to see a lot more of that kind of thing in the > industry, frankly. > > Jordan >
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