From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 26 17:45:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FD716A533 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6683F448B5 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1182058wxd for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OGPMMu7JcFRCzMgIsBoxItvFxk7UvdxEPqHrfT9VHEN1VgablhnFRw/ONpvScU8yfvCJi2kzg38PCL82XiAGxGTisfDQaEBb+c+xUgcWKh6bb+InneuGDFBwxVVHak8jwgmZIS/SxRRJpJPHVsDQUzv8lX70v1FuJwLbM8KU5Ro= Received: by 10.70.32.6 with SMTP id f6mr6459846wxf; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:13:31 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: shankar In-Reply-To: <000501c6c8e1$8435e840$a6b0113d@abc1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000501c6c8e1$8435e840$a6b0113d@abc1> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:45:33 -0000 On 8/26/06, shankar wrote: > Hi, > > I quote you from your page: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html > "Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also > encouraged to contact us. " > > I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org > I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux > seemed > the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am > completely > vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if > I want > to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which > is a highly > time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that > almost > strips me of all rights. Use QT: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt If you buy a commercial license from trolltech you can do whatever you want with your software, plus QT runs on every popular OS; Qt/Windows, Qt/X11, and Qt/Mac. The KDE project uses QT. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/