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Re: [DotGNU]Qt Theming being a GPL violation
From: |
Michael Moore |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Qt Theming being a GPL violation |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:00:37 -0400 |
>
> I don't know much about licenses but my goal for all
> this themer stuff was to make the end users
> experience as integrated and seamless as I could in
> an automatic way. If you were in KDE, you got the
> Qt themer, if you were in gnome, GTK themer,
> windows, XP themer etc. Some discussion was
> mentioned it might have to be a seperate package
> that users have to install. That kind of defeats
> the purpose if pnetlib is to be put into distro's
> because nobody would have that integration.
Creating two seperate packages to avoid non-GPL'd software being installed by
default is becoming more common. A recent example, Redhat removed MP3
support from xmms (although not really a GPL issue). Either way, packages were
still available with mp3 support, although not directly from Redhat (so maybe
not the best example).
Anyway, two packages could be built-- a GPL and non-GPL version. Users would
then have to download the non-GPL version (not include it in distros
repositories). Does this avoid the 'GPL violations' if users 1) have a choice
2) are
notified about Qt's non-GPL license?
This seems like the best way to still allow 'automatic' theming if users don't
mind the use of a non-GPL licensed software.
My two cents,
Michael