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0 pointsyarrel8y ago0 comments

Only "many"? o_O ;-)

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wmf8y ago· 2 in thread

In the dark prehistory of the Linux desktop, Qt/KDE was GPL so Gtk/GNOME went with the "more free" LGPL to support proprietary apps. I guess that strain of pragmatism hasn't gone away.

evmar8y ago

It's the other way around -- Qt wasn't GPL until 2005, GNOME started in 1997 in response to the non-free license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History

wmf8y ago

Ah, right, Qt wasn't GPL but it still "infected" apps with a copyleft-like provision.

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