Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: News and questions

[Marciano Siniscalchi]

I hate licensing discussions and (especially) flame wars, but we should 
probably consider the following.

Trolltech explicitly acknowledges that Qt/X11 may be compiled to run under 
Win32:

http://www.trolltech.com/developer/platforms/xlib-on-windows.html

Indeed the KDE-on-Cygwin project apparently got Qt3 working under 
Cygwin/Xfree. Now, Qt/X11 is avalable under the GPL *on Unix*. Should the 
fact that Trolltech recognizes the possibility of running Qt/X11 under 
Win32 as an indication that they also allow it to be licensed under the GPL?

This is not clear. I think it would be easiest to just ask them. Notice 
that, if the answer is affirmative, the following situation would ensue. 
TeXmacs would be available:

* on Linux, under the GPL
* on Win32 under the GPL, but using the Cygwin/Xfree layer
  (which makes things less convenient and probably slower, but still!)
* on Win32 under a commercial license. This might actually be good for funding
  the project!

As an aside, it would be good to patch TeXmacs so that it can use a native 
TeX installation (e.g. miktex) under Win32. This should not be too hard. I 
considered doing it when I got TeXmacs to compile under Cygwin, but I was 
too lazy then...

M

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