Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:55:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL kills KDE distribution Message-ID: <199810082255.PAA01220@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:46:14 PDT." <199810082246.PAA17690@kithrup.com>
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> In article <199810082114.OAA00692.kithrup.freebsd.chat@dingo.cdrom.com> you write: > >Chalk one up to the GPL really screwing things up. 8( > > No, chalk it up to people using non-free licensing terms (e.g., Qt's license) > and other people insisting that onl non-GPL licenses are truly free. > > You get what you deserve: you want software to be able to be non-free, you > end up with software that is non-free. The GPL is the spanner in the works here. The QT license is quite open to it being used in free software. The problem is that the GPL wants to infect everything it comes into contact with, and QT is immune. The result is the death of the host. Cause of death is Poisoning by GPL. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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