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From: | Simon Guindon |
Subject: | [DotGNU]Qt Theming being a GPL violation |
Date: | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:33:17 -0400 |
Hello all, thanks to everyone who has
tried the themer and have given me feedback on how it worked out.
Also thanks to Gopal for adding the things I needed to CVS.
I read the log from the meeting last night and I
see some issues have been brought up. Apparently including Qt software
into pnetlib can cause GPL violations. Gopal suggested we talk about it on
this list and try and come to some sort of a conclusion.
I don't know much about licenses but my goal for
all this themer stuff was to make the end users experience as integrated and
seamless as I could in an automatic way. If you were in KDE, you got the
Qt themer, if you were in gnome, GTK themer, windows, XP themer etc. Some
discussion was mentioned it might have to be a seperate package that users have
to install. That kind of defeats the purpose if pnetlib is to be put into
distro's because nobody would have that integration.
As I said, I don't know much about licenses but if
thats how it is legally, then theres not much I can do obviously, but theres
some unsure talk if that is the issue at all, because if a user builds a non-gpl
app, its not really linking to qt itself, pnetlib is,which is
GPL'd.
QtThemer (GPL) => SWF (GPL + LE) => App
(nonGPL)
I would really appreciate some feedback from the
big wigs in dotgnu on this subject or from anyone else that has an
opinion. I really want to make this automatic for end users if possible
but if it can't, it can't.
Take care and thanks in advance,
Simon
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