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

[Achim Lörke <Achim.Loerke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:18:37 +0200, Jörg von Frantzius
<joerg.von.frantzius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Doug Schaefer schrieb:
>> If there is a question, then no corporate lawyer would allow such a 
>> release. So, yes, even if a Qt port existed, I'm pretty sure none of 
>> the SWT committers would be allowed by their employer to work on it 
>> because of the legal implications.
>I doubt there would be legal implications if the Qt port was released 
>under the EPL. There would be legal implications if anybody sold a 
>commercial product on top of it, without paying Trolltech.
>

The EPL allows everyone to sell a (even closed source) product based
on Eclipse technology. So every part used throughout Eclipse must be
licensed this way.


Achim
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