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Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
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Akib Azmain Turja |
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Re: Abysmal state of GTK build |
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Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:41:45 +0600 |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > If Someoneā¢ 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.
We can keep the Qt port in isolation from the rest of Emacs, and then,
if we ever upgrade to GPL version 4-or-later, we can kick out the port
until Qt also upgrades their license.
>
> Use of C++ is another problem.
Yeah, writing C++ may seem to be pleasant, but it becomes horrible when
you get an compile error with a thousand lines backtrace of types and
templates.
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