[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: SWT for KDE / Qt?

["Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörg,

 

The short answer is we don't know. I just looked at the license exception and it seems to at least be helpful. But the hard part in doing these analyses is always figuring out the commercial distribution case. Eclipse is specifically set up to not only allow but encourage commercial adoption of technologies that are delivered by Eclipse projects. I am not sure that their exception goes far enough to allow that. Doing such an analysis would require a fairly significant investment in time and money.

 

Is this a rhetorical question, or do you have a development team interested in working on this?

"Jörg von Frantzius" <joerg.von.frantzius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ftvfga$dj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...

Hi,

in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20486 it was stated that a Qt/KDE port of SWT cannot be released due to licensing issues with GPL. For some time now, Trolltech defines GPL exceptions (http://trolltech.com/products/qt/gplexception) which seem to allow such a thing, since the Eclipse Public License is explicitly listed there.

Could someone in the know clarify what the Eclipse Foundation's official stance is here?

Thanks for any comments,
Jörg