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It must be good for something…ĭon’t see a problem with a wxWidgets port. However, if you have enough money to spend on Webshpere then you will see that a Qt port of Eclipse actually exists – it’s just that IBM pays a fair bit of money for it. Eclipse, despite talk of it being used for cross platform development, is still very much geared to running on Windows.

The reason why there is always talk of a Qt Eclipse port, and many people within Eclipse are actually motivated to do it, is because GTK Eclipse sucks like a Hoover. If Eclipse used a GPL compatible license then they could, and there is no reason in the whole wide world why they can’t. This is the same reason why Eclipse/SWT doesn’t have a QT-port

If you’re going to try and comment on stuff like this, please, do some Googling. It uses a MPL/GPL/LGPL triple licensing scheme. In order to use GPLed software you need to be using a GPL compatible license (LGPL etc.), but you’re still wrong about Mozilla even then.

I don’t know who modded you up, but that’s pretty uninformed: In the end, personally, KDE is far better off sticking with their own KHTML/KJS implementation, which is a lot cleaner, compact and efficient that the Mozilla core is right now – hopefully once Objective-C++ is accepted into the mainline of GNU-GCC, we’ll see alot more code sharing between webcore and KHTML, as the need to translate between Objective-C++ and regular C++ would be non-existant. which is a long process, rather than simply just downloading the core components, and work up from there. QT is GPL’d, so Mozilla would have to GPL any of their software that uses QT.Ībsolutely, 100% incorrect The licence for which Qt is licenced under is this you either pay Trolltech for a commercial licence OR you release your application under GPL.Īlso, when Mozilla was first released, it wasn’t released under the GPL until later on IIRC, its released under three licences.Īs for their choice of GTK – It probably had to do more to do with the fact that the programmers are Netscape were familar with Motif, and wanted somethign that was easier to migrate to rather than something radically different.Īs for Qt and Gecko, IMHO ultimately KDE programmers aren’t to worried as eventually you’ll see a split between Firefox/Thunderbird and the underlying ‘core’ so that you can download the ‘core’ seperately, and embed it easily rather than the situation now, where, for example, if on were to compile Epiphany, one needs to download the whole source etc.