[Gllug] PDAs

[Matthew Allum]

on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:44:52PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
> Not sure myself.  I hadn't heard of familiar until a year or two ago, but
> that doesn't mean it wasn't around earlier.
>

The handhelds.org mailing started in May 2000. 
 
> > > Because you can license Qtopia as GPL, Qt/Embedded as GPL, then I don't
> > > thnik it gets better than that.
> > 
> > This http://www.trolltech.com/products/qtopia/licensing.html?cid=6 would
> > seem to say the licensing is more complicated than that. 
> 
> Not at all.  Simply, if you want to link proprietary code to it, you must
> pay.  If you are doing GPL stuff, you don't.  Not perfect, but it fuels
> further development of GPL code, so it's a pretty good compromise.

Yes thats the theory. 

> > Also Are the core qte libs LGPL ? Thats normally considered better for
> > library's .
> 
> In fact it's not.  See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
> 
> If they had given an LGPL option, companies wanting to link their
> proprietary code to it would legally be able to do so without paying
> royalties.

Well its a good job not everyone takes that opinion, or your zuarus
would have serious problems / increased cost. 

  -- Matthew

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