Qt history refresher course?

[John Cowan]

Ned Lilly wrote:

> Could someone give (or provide a link to) a summary of the GNU community's
> objections to the QPL,


The QPL imposes conditions incompatible with the GPL, so software
licensed under the GPL cannot be incorporated into a GPL program
(unless the software is also licensed under a GPL-compatible license).

> and how the GNOME/KDE brou-ha-ha started?

That is a separate issue.  Earlier versions of the Qt toolkit
weren't Open Source, even though KDE was.  GNOME was started as a
top-to-bottom Open Source desktop.  Then Trolltech changed the
Qt license to the QPL.

(Oversimplified.)

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