Messages in this thread | | | From | chip@atlantic ... | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:33 -0500 (EST) |
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According to Joe Pranevich: > Open == GPL. End of story.
That's not quite true. Consider, for example, Larry Wall's "Artistic License", used for Perl. That's entirely open. In fact, it's more open than the GPL -- but that openness is a kind that those who believe in the GPL generally don't like (open to use w/o license infection).
> Troll could change the license on a dime and leave all you KDE > lovers out there with the option to either change Window Maganers or > pay them money.
That's not true at all. Each version of Qt, when it is released with a given license, is usable according to the terms of that license in perpetuity. Future versions may be more restricted (and no, I don't expect that, either), but that doesn't change the fact that (e.g.) Qt 1.32 will always be usable for free software development.
> Under the GPL the amount of open ("free") code in the world can only > increase, that's the beauty of it.
That's _a_ beauty. But I think once we leave the details of what is allowed and start talking about what is good, we should probably adjourn to gnu.misc.discuss. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com> "Nice shooting, Zanthar!" "Thanks, Denise." // MST3K
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