Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265892AbTFSSpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:45:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265903AbTFSSpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:45:04 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:2294 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265892AbTFSSo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:44:57 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: "Downing, Thomas" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:58:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A920234CD34@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> In-Reply-To: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A920234CD34@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03061913583400.25866@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1013 Lines: 29 On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:37, Downing, Thomas wrote: > I'm no authority, but IMHO > > > In article <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de>, > > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: [snip] > > Which makes no sense. You're not at the mercy of Linus or the > > kernel developers, neither at that of the KDE developers, but > > TrollTech controls the KDE desktop wrt commercial apps. > > No, they don't. KDE uses the GPL for QT. If I build a commercial > app using KDE, it is GPL. If I build a commercial app not using > KDE, but using commercial QT, that has no effect on the KDE desktop. Lets see... SCO releases Linux code under GPL... IBM releases code based on Linux... SCO now changes mind... And the lawyers gather... Personally, I don't see a difference... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/