OfB.biz: Qt, the GPL, Business and Freedom | Linux Today

OfB.biz: Qt, the GPL, Business and Freedom

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 7, 2005

[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]

“In a series of articles (part I, part II) during the month of
July, OfB’s Timothy R. Butler explained why he felt that KDE needed
to move beyond the Qt toolkit it uses as a foundation. In that
series, he asserted that the licensing of Qt is becoming a
stumbling block to the desktop’s adoption. Eric Laffoon, the
project lead for KDE’s Kdewebdev module, takes exception to
Butler’s arguments and makes the case for his view on the issue of
Qt…”


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