Hello

First, I am completely agree with you concerning the licence problem.

But for me, the goal is not necessary to obtain an extension used by
everybody. If I want to develop this extension is more fore my pleasure and
for my proper using. After, if people like it, use it and help me, ok it is
cool.

I do not develop too much on Window for my pleasure and I thing that to have
a binding php-qt on linux could be very interesting. I am sure that a lot
of people could be interested to see this extension and why not to use it
on linux. On Linux only, why not, that not a problem for me. I thing that
the php community is very open for new porject and is a very big community.
And if somebody are very interested to develop GUI on windows and do not
want to pay something, ok, he can take GTK-PHP.

To resume, the first goal for me, is to have this one on Linux for free and
to have pleasure in this project.

We have discuss a lot concerning the licence problem, but do you have a
response for my question :-).

See you

Jean-Luc

Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 11/13/2004 03:04 PM, Gyger Jean-Luc wrote:
>>>>Three weeks ago, I have started to develop a binding extension for Qt
>>>>and PHP 5.
>>>
>>>Thne idea is interesting but there are a couple of details that may make
>>>your extension uninteresting for the current PHP community:
>>>
>>>1. Very few people will be using PHP 5 soon.
>>>
>>>2. Qt Open Source license is GPL. This means that your extension has to
>>>be GPL to be publicly distributed and only GPL programs can use your
>>>extension unless they pay the commercial Qt license.
>>>
>>>If you agree that this may be a problem, you may want to consider using
>>>wxWindows instead of Qt, and also benefit of cross-platform with native
>>>bindings without a cost or licence limitations:
>>>
>>>http://www.wxwindows.org/
>>>
>>
>>
>> I see your point of view and thank you for this.
>>
>> Of course, I would like to distribute this extension with the GPL
>> licence. If I want to use Qt is because this library is a very power
>> toolkit and I use it everyday as PHP. I'm checked on Internet and I do
>> not see if somebody try to implement this binding, like PyQt or PerlQt
>> etc...
>
> AFAIK, nobody is developing Qt bindings extension. The problem is that
> if you can't use Qt to develop and distribute non-GPL application
> without paying a commercial Qt license fee.
>
> When you posted your message to the public I assumed that you were
> interested in attracting other people to help or use your extension.
>
> What I am trying to tell you is that because of the license fee payment
> requirement, Qt is not interesting to many people.
>
>
>> Of course, it exist PHP-GTK, but I prefer Qt than GTK. But I don't want
>> to begin a discussion between this two toolkits, this is not the goal,
>> everybody prefer what he want.
>>
>> In a first step, my intention is to have this extension on Linux system
>> and after also for windows and other, but first on Linux.
>
> Either GTK, Qt and wxWindows can work either on Linux and Windows, so
> that is not a problem.
>
>
>> I thing that we can build very porwer tool with PHP and Qt.
>
> I suggested the wxWindows library as an alternative because it is
> practically as powerful as Qt and is LGPL, so everybody can use it
> without paying commercial license fees. Therefore, a wxWindows extension
> would be more interesting than a Qt extension. See what I mean?
>
> Because of the license problems, unlike a Qt extension, a wxWindows
> extension would be acceptable for in PECL. If you get your extension
> accepted in PECL, you can get much more exposure to your work and
> eventually more users and other people helping in the development.
>
> http://pecl.php.net/
>
>
>
>