Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Qt Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980513143158.8007I-100000@galileo.cris.com> In-Reply-To: <c=GB%a=TMAILUK%p=DCNET%l=EXCHANGE2-980513170959Z-9074@smtp.datcon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Edward Avis wrote: > >The goals of the FreeBSD Project are to provide software that may be > >used for any purpose and without strings attached. > > How do you square this with including KDE/Qt? Because they are both free as well. You'll do little to convince me otherwise. > KDE is free software, but Qt falls far short of "any purpose and without > strings attached". I believe that Qt is totally free of charge if you use it in the arena of free software. If you intend to profit from it's use with closed code, then you have to pay development costs for it. Simply put, "keep it free, and it stays free". I don't have any trouble with that. Some software simply won't get written unless someone pays someone else to write it. Qt is doing that AND allowing free software to benefit at the same time. They are giving back. That's all I have to say. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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