[Mono-list] Re: A year's log with short predictions.

[Haakon Nilsen]

Georgios Kasselakis wrote:

> Oss people are increasingly feeling awkward of KDE, after all its
> based on a gpl'ed toolkit that is owned by a company

Like you say, it's GPL. It hardly matters who "owns" it.

> that prevents you from developping commercial software on it.

You can develop commercial software with it all you want. You just have to
comply with the GPL.

> Even if you intend to buy it it doesn't work that way. You have to buy it
> in advance.

If you intend to publish software that is not GPL-compatible, you have to
pay for the non-free license. However, you don't have to buy it in advance,
just use the GPL version, which is fine as long as you don't distribute the
software.

> 1: If you doubt the loathsomeness of gcj then just look at the 'native
> eclipse' that shipped with Fedora Core 4. It's loathsome I tell you.

Interesting analysis.