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

["Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jan Schulz" <muelleimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> * David Whiteman <dwhitema@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to make a GPL port of SWT? AFAI understand,
> I can take CPL code and put it anywere, so why not into GPL?

You cannot put CPL code under GPL. Period.

> Or does
> the SWT Api need to be GPL'ed then too?


Yes.

Bob

> AFAIR there is already a QT Port of SWT, but just with a non-GPL
> lizenz of QT. If the above is possibel, can't this SWT Port be
> double lizenzed as QT itself is? -> 'The Community' can get it from
> a place elsewhere as eclipse.org and commercial products must anyway
> buy a QT lizens (or isn't it that IBM sold a QT version of their
> eclipse based product?).
>
> Sorry for this question, I must say, that I have no real insight
> into all this lizens business, but this questions are bugging me
> since I first read about the QT port of SWT and the following
> discussion.
>
> Thanks for any answer,
>
> Jan