Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dave Cinege" <> | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 98 20:32:13 -0500 | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 02:21:13 -0800, George wrote:
>> >> Sorry to disagree but qt is not free. It is owned by Troll Tech. There >> >> is a *significant* difference here you have *obviously* missed. Troll >> >> Tech or whoever owns qt can cease its current distribution policy *at >> >> their discretion at any time*. Where will KDE be then? >> >> So could Linus. (The parts that are his anyway, leaving you with a quite >> useless pile'o crap kernel tree) > >existing code HAS to be GPL, you can't change a license on RELEASED >source code, by Linus changing the license, all that would ahppen is >Linus would be out of kernel developing (and of course he would be the >one left with the useless pile of code since he could not use the other >code, while the rest of us could use his parts without problems) .... >this is the greatest strengths of GPL ...
Well after the court case we can all be sure. Otherwise, I'm still of the opinion at the least, it would become a large seathing pile of shit should a GPL author try to the reclaim his code, mostly turning out in a mixed result. (Like you can freely use the author code before he made the licence change, but can't modify it further, etc, etc)
>but I'm fairly sure that Linus won't do that ... >1) he wouldn't gain much >2) he's just a real nice guy ... (I guess:) 3) we know where he works. ; >
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