Jon A. Cruz wrote:

> Daniel Matthews wrote:
> 
> 
>>Why did you call Andreas Zehender an Evil Troll?!!
>>He is the primary developer behind KPovModeler and I think the guys are
>>doing a brilliant job of it too.
>>:-\
>>
>>Jon A. Cruz wrote:
>>[snip}
>>
>>>..I don't like using things that require the work of Evil Trolls.
>>>
> 
> Sorry, I didn't mean that to be taken as anything negative about Andreas.
> 
> I was instead complaining about the Qt library from Troll Tech (that KDE
> is based on). Their licensing is better than it was, but it's still bad.


I thought you probably meant TrollTech. You know a company name like 
that just begs for some bad jokes ;)

 
> Among other things, you can't use the free version of the library to build
> a commercial or shareware app, unlike GTK++ and its LGPL. In fact, Troll
> Tech considers shareware to be non-viable and prohibits Qt's use for
> shareware.


I prefer LGPL too. But I also like KDE for my desktop. That lead me to 
the quandary of choosing between Qt and GTK+ where one would help me 
create apps that take advantage of the KDE look that users have set up 
vs the other having the better license. Also, I may eventually do a 
commercial app for Linux and the cost of a commercial Qt license seemed 
pretty expensive to my frugal budget. So what I've ended up doing is 
programming in the KDE environment (KDevelop) using GTK+/Glade/etc. At 
least most Gnome/GTK stuff runs in KDE (and KDE stuff will run in Gnome 
too)!

-Roz

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