[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Qt now LGPL

[Ketan Padegaonkar <ketanpadegaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

To add to this, SWT using QT underneath would mean a single 
implementation of SWT, since QT takes care of platform specific UIs on 
all platforms it runs on :)

-- Ketan

On 14/1/09 14:34, Jörg von Frantzius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to bring up the "SWT for KDE / Qt" subject again: the Qt toolkit
> (foundation of KDE) is being relicensed as LGPL.
>
> A blog entry with further links can be found here:
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/01/14/beat-me-to-the-punch/
>
> If they really do "want KDE to be ten times as big
> <http://dot.kde.org/1231920504/>", I'd say one smart step would be to
> contribute themselves a SWT port to Eclipse...
>
> Well, at least things are moving in the right direction, however further
> long it may take until Eclipse becomes what it could really be on Linux :-)