--- In "Don W. Carr" <> wrote:
>
> Be aware that the license for Qt is not LGPL, but GPL. I think that they
> have a special license exception so you can also link against code
licensed
> under other open source licenses, but you can not keep you code
proprietary
> (or use any proprietary content) unless you pay a license fee to
Trolltech.
>
> Really, it is best not to use Qt for anything. They are trying to
collect
> royalties for the work of all. Basic libraries like the GUI toolkit
should
> NOT be licensed under GPL. The LGPL is for libraries. Imagine if all
of the
> libraries that came with GNU/Linux were GPL and you hade to pay some
company
> or other to link proprietary code with each and every one of the
libraries.
While I agree, at least in our case we had no choice... We had to
have a javascript-capable browser, and the only one we could find that
actually worked was konqueror, which is based on Qt. I agree that
trolltech makes it difficult to even find the gpl code on their website.
>
> There is an interesting project that got started with the Nokia web
pad that
> uses GTK. That device also uses an Arm processor, so it would not
take much
> to port the window manager and all to the arm boards.
>
> http://www.maemo.org/
>
> Actually, TS should think about making a hardened version of the
Nokia web
> pad based on the 7300 for control interfaces (fixed in a cabinet). There
> would be no royalties to pay on any of the software, and, you would
be able
> to use any of the applications developed for the Nokia web pad. They
could
> even sell the display to go with it.
>
> The 7300 platform is really going to evolve over time.
We sent a TS 7300 to the developers for OpenWrt in hopes of getting a
full build environment. So far, no TS7xx0 port :-( . But they're not
getting paid for this, so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.
You can build pretty much anything with the OpenWrt buildroot....
--Yan
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