[news.eclipse.tools] Re: SWT/Fox volunteers wanted

[Byron Gehman <byron_gehman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Whiteman wrote:

> "Ivan Markov" <ivan.markov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:b2ifg3$jmb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Also porting SWT is a huge effort and there are no other volunteers for a
>> SWT/Fox port besides me. Given that, and the unclearness around the
>> possible SWT/Qt port (which, if appears will render SWT/Fox redundant)
>> does little to motivate me..
> 
> Well, if it helps motivate you, I will be very surprised if Trolltech will
> ever agree to a CPL license, and therefore SWT/Qt might never become
> available in the open source.
> 
> David

What differences does it make?  The SWT works on Microsoft Windows and I
dont see Microsoft CPL'ing their source code.  What I am trying to say is
that the SWT can be ported to Qt and it shouldnt violate any Trolltech
licenses (as long as eclipse doesn't ship the Qt binaries).