Re: Qt Freed!

To: Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>, Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Qt Freed!
From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 98 13:39 PST
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From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
> This is difficult:  You can't compile a program against Harmony then use
> it with Qt.  So somebody has to explicitly combine the GPLed work with Qt.

I didn't communicate my point effectively. Given that Harmony was
link-compatible with Qt Free Edition, could you develop a proprietary
application with Harmony, and could users then run it with Qt? Does
Harmony actually have to _work_ for you to do this?

	Thanks

	Bruce
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