Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@ag.or.at)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:11:15 +0200 (CEST)

> > #1 The KDE people want *their* software to be used in a 'GPL' way.
> > (GPL meaning do as you wish, but provide the modified source)
That's a very small subset of GPL. And actually, for the library LGPL is
correct if do not want to force your worldview on the rest of the world.
So LGPL is actually broken twice by LGPL:
-) modify&distribute (which is vital for security and self determination
of the Linux user & distribution maker.)
-) make closed source apps and distribute and nopay.
(I know, this sounds stupid from free software arguer, but Linux
should be free for anything. Perhaps because I work in a field
where I'm forced my local treaties to go closed source, and I don't
like very much the idea of $X tax, be it X=MS or X=TT. And no, you
don't negotiate about this with the local social insurance
staterun cartell. They are scared to hell by the idea of a doctor
running computer software to generate more income by semi
automatically bills.)

> Please refer to http://www.kde.org/kdeqtfoundation.html for an outline
> of the KDE-QT Foundation.
>
> To Quote from the above Web Page:
>
> <Begin Quote>
> Furthermore, should Troll Tech cease continued development of Qt, as
> assessed by a majority of the KDE Free Qt Foundation, and not
> release a new version at least every 12 months, the Foundation has
And what if Linux gets popular, and somebody comes to them intimating
(like, let's see, what could be change in some APIs to break all Qt apps,
...) and/or bribing them to make only more and more buggy software?

If they wanted to useable by the open source scene for ever, they would
rerelease Qt under LGPL. If they would want to force people opensource,
which is Ok from TT's side, but probably not Ok from Linux designer side:
core libraries should be LGPL, they should go with GPL.

> If the KDE people would write a totally new KIMP from scratch which
> contains no The GIMP source code, they can do whatever they want with
> The KIMP. They just can not do it with The GIMP source code.
That's exactly what the people have been telling from the beginning of the
KDE people. The KDE people /ignore'd them, and so they now have the
problems that would clearly come from this.

Andreas

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