Messages in this thread | | | From | Thorsten Körner <> | Subject | Re: Sco vs. IBM | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:29:28 +0200 |
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Hi Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 15:14 schrieb Jesse Pollard: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:03, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > > Citat Magnus Solvang <magnus@solvang.net>: > > > Quoting jdow (jdow@earthlink.net): > > > [...] > > > > > > | > I believe it's this Norwegian company they write about: > > > | > > > > | > http://www.trolltech.com/ > > > | > > > | If so then say good by to KDE sometime soon.... > > > > > > How did you arrive at that conclusion? Do you believe that > > > SCO will destroy everything and everybody related to Linux > > > when they can make money by suing them? :) > > > And KDE is not limited to just Linux. > > > > Go back and read the forbes article. That was more or less exactly the > > point of that article. > > It was the original reason Gnome was started. Trolltec had released thier > toolkit for "free" but not GPL. They then changed the licence a bit, but I > think they still have some (lot?) control over the toolkit. I believe the > KDE group did start a re-work to implement an independant version, but I > don't know how that went. I think all newer versions of QT are licensed under GPL. And IMHO uses the KDE-Project QT-Libs that are 'GPLed', so trolltech can't stop the project from using this Libs.
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