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

[Magnus Therning]

Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> writes:

> 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.

We are in violent agreement on this!

I just felt your first statement was a simplification that bordered on
making it factually incorrect, hence my comment.

/M

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