Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If Someone™ contributes a Qt port, that might
  > do as well (there was a port of XEmacs to Qt several decades ago, so
  > it definitely feasible).

Qt has a grave problem: its license.  It is released undeer GNU GPL
version 3 _only_.  That means that if someday we have a GPL version 4,
when we upgrade Emacs to GPL version 4-or-later, it will be
license-incompatible with GPL 3.

The Qt developers might change to GPL 3-or-4, but we can't assume they
will do so.

Use of C++ is another problem.

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