Re: [glob2-devel] A note about the roadmap

[Andrii Zvorygin]

it's either gtk or qt.

I vote GTK!! :D 
the multiple dependancy is a non-issue because so many people already
have gtk2 installed with all the libraries that the addition of maybe 1
or no more would be quite alright
now in terms of how much the user will like it GTK is better as if the
user sets a theme in his QT then then they can just get gtk+2 qt engine
which will allow them to see in the same way. but if we make it in QT
anyone with gnome will be doomed to having qt themes that never really
go with the rest of them.

i guess you could say it's a trivial objection *shrugs*

this is what GNU has to say about the  QT liscenses

> Q Public License (QPL), Version 1.0

This is a non-copyleft free software license which is incompatible with the GNU GPL. It also causes major practical inconvenience, because modified sources can only be distributed as patches.

We recommend that you avoid using the QPL for anything that you write, and use QPL-covered software packages only when absolutely necessary. However, this avoidance no longer applies to Qt itself, since Qt is now also released under the GNU GPL.

Since the QPL is incompatible with the GNU GPL, you cannot take a GPL-covered program and QPL-covered program and link them together, no matter how.

However, if you have written a program that uses QPL-covered library (called FOO), and you want to release your program under the GNU GPL, you can easily do that. You can resolve the conflict for your program by adding a notice like this to it:

  As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
  with the FOO library and distribute executables, as long as you
  follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the
  software in the executable aside from FOO.
    

You can do this, legally, if you are the copyright holder for the program. Add it in the source files, after the notice that says the program is covered by the GNU GPL.

Anyways, they do have the weird dual liscencing thing and if you
are a commercial business you have to buy their other license or what
not. and they have sooo many proprietary paid for applications that you
can get for QT. http://www.trolltech.com/ like just look at the buy now
try now. eh oh well

and if we use GTK we can use Glade! which makes it really easy to make
gui's. as far as i know there is no such thing for QT. but i may be
wrong

Sincerly, Lokadin