I thought this might amuse some of you..sorry for the OT post. It was some moron on LT's site. Doesn't know the history of Gnome.. *laugh*..seems like everyone is claiming to be a Free Software "writer". cheers! ----- Forwarded message from "Anthony W. Youngman" ----- Message-ID: <0EF9DEABA42FE547BAE43D0298F146B20D2E12@ESP.eca-international.com> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) From: "Anthony W. Youngman" Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:22:49 +0100 To: "'ben@whack.org'" Subject: Re: There are real issues here ( Jul 22, 2001, 22:00:43 ) Are you on the same planet as the rest of us? Gnome is completely GPL'ed..that's the reason it came into existence..because QT was not GPL'ed and not blessed by the FSF. And this whole thing about linking..that's the MS FUD line. READ STALLMAN! HE PREFERS KDE BECAUSE KDE IS GPL'D AND GNOME IS NOT! As has been pointed out elsewhere, GTK is licenced under the *L*GPL which appeals to businesses. They can take it and use it, without giving back in any manner whatsoever. Becuase Qt is dual GPL/Commercial, businesses have a choice. They can pay TT for a commercial licence, or they can use the GPL'd version - which means their product has to be GBPL'd too. Have you noticed a trend - a lot of "Free Software Writers" (myself included) use the *L*GPL in order to avoid constraining business use, but a lot of businesses freeing existing software use the GPL in order to either *prevent* other companies taking advantage, or to extract licence fees from those who do. There are very good reasons for choosing particular licences, and the GTK/Qt division is an obvious example. Check the licences. Gnome is NOT GPL, it's LGPL, which is NOT the same thing. Cheers, Wol This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: London +44 (0)20 7351 5000, Hong Kong + 852 (0)2 121 2388 and New York +1 (0)212 582 2333. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom" --General Patton