[ale] KDE vs. Gnome

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 18 09:39:57 EST 2002


My own understanding is that Trolltech makes Qt available for free for 
KDE users. If you are developing applications, then you trigger other 
licensing stipulations. Anybody else know differently?

Matthew Brown wrote:

> What do you guys think of the differences b/w the licensing for Gnome and the
> licensing for KDE?
> 
> I have been leaning toward Gnome for a while because I had understood the KDE
> license to mean that if I install KDE at a client, then they have to pay some
> sort of fee since it is commercial use.  BUT, in reading the KDE site recently,
> it looks like I'm WAY OFF on this.
> 
> Thanks!
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