Francis Earl wrote:
This is nonsense. Sooner or later EVERY program demand something from the kernel. You have no clue how software really works do you?
I do actually. Most actually refer to LGPL libs, which is permitted, so no, not everything is a derived work. This is why most companies prefer GTK over Qt also, or just using wine for their port.
If I write a program which calls write(2), i'm callig the kernel directly. You can't seriously believe that every program which calls write(2) *MUST* be GPL to run on Linux -- That would be bat-shit fucking INSANE.
As an aside, this is also how Trolltech make their money, you can't use the Qt provided by Novell and others at all for proprietary stuff because the open source version is GPL, thus derived works would be required to be GPL too... so people like Adobe and Opera purchase the proprietary license so they can use it without GPL'ing their software.
Trolltech distributes free for GPL apps. and charges for commercial apps. I.e. .. if you make money off of Trolltech libraries, then Trolltech gets a cut. If you don't, then they don't demand one.
They made more than Novell did last quarter going by financial documents I've seen, so it appears to be working for them.
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