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Re: building a free replacement for Qt

From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
> it was done with motif, so why it is a problem with qt ? where is the
> difference ? i thought there was none, so please correct me.

In the case of Motif, there was published documentation from a third
party that you could buy in a bookstore and use without any license. In
the case of Qt, there's only Troll Tech's document that they copyright
and license for use with their library. You can clone it, but you have
to do it as a "clean room" effort - one team documents Qt and publishes
the document, the second one writes a library to the document. This is
a big hassle and I think it would need some significant expenditure for
legal services. I just can't justify it when there's a free alternative
in GTK already available.

	Bruce
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