[arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux

[Eli Schwartz]

On 11/08/2016 08:03 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> Um, the Qt licensing is rather more complicated than that nowadays:
> https://www.qt.io/licensing-comparison/
> 
> I think it went something like (vastly simplified and not weighed down
> by any sort of actual knowledge)
> 
>  1. Trolltech used GPL on everything and sold a commercial license to
>     actually make money.
>  2. Nokia bought Trolltech and didn't feel a need to make money on Qt,
>     so they relicensed the lib under LGPL.
>  3. The Qt Company is back to needing to make money on Qt, so some newer
>     parts are GPL.

True, but LGPL >= GPL and however you slice it, it is not "closed sw".

Granted, some newer things are actually (sometimes?) completely closed
source and only available under a commercial license, but that is not
"Qt", it is addons to Qt which AFAIK aren't even something e.g. KDE
actually are interested in.

Mainly, my point is that Qt is actually an amazing model of a
commercially-developed FLOSS software with a sustainable business model
that accommodates both the commercial and open-source communities, and
it is kind of painful to hear someone accuse it of being "closed sw",
with all the attendant evil-anti-Linux-project emotional baggage that is
likely to evoke.

-- 
Eli Schwartz