[Psi-devel] Fwd: Trolltech To Extend Dual Licensing to Qt for Windows

[trejkaz at trypticon.org]

At Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Damjan wrote:
> > > It certainly looks like this will be /legally/ possible.  I don't want
> > > to put words in Kev's mouth, but I imagine he'd be most interested in
> > > getting it to all work with MinGW.
> > 
> > MinGW would be awesome.  I picture myself patching my work copy of Psi with 
> > various handy features... something I can't do right now thanks largely to 
> > Trolltech's old licencing. :-D
> 
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39187111,00.htm
> 
> Ralf Habacker, a KDE developer who initiated a project to port the Linux
> desktop to Windows, said over the weekend that a native Windows port for
> Qt, the KDE graphical framework, will be released under the General
> Public License (GPL).
> 
> "The native GPLed port of QT/Win 3.3.3 will reach production state
> soon," said Habacker.
> 
> He said that people who have used the native port to build releases of
> Linux applications have only reported "minor problems". 

Probably "minor problems" like a UI which looks and feels like Qt/X11, instead
of skinning to the user's chosen theme like real Qt/Win32 .

TX

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