[techtalk] GUI's

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:45:06 -0400, Brendan/Coolian <coolian at thecia.net> said:

>I've been trying to follow the whole KDE/GNOME fiasco, and I was
>seeing down the road GNOME merging with KDE, because of the whole
>licensing resolution with the QT 2.0 set.  

This won't happen, for a variety of technical and political reasons.
GNOME and KDE have markedly different design philosophies.  Also, Qt
is a dog (terribly inefficient!).

>It's now perfectly GPL, I thought and the point of the GNOME project
>was based on that non-free piece of code being included in KDE.

Last I checked the license Qt is to be released under is NOT
GPL-compliant.  IHMO, IANYAL.

Kelly

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