Hello,

Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 11/14/2004 01:10 AM, Gyger Jean-Luc wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Right, but my point is that if you develop an extension that is
> interesting to more people, chances are that you get more help to solve
> the problems like the one you presented.
>

This is true...

>
>> 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.
>
> I suspect that you are making a confusion of Linux and GPL. If you want
> to distribute a closed source application using your extension that
> links to Qt library under Linux, you still have to buy the Qt commercial
> license. Everybody that uses your extension under Linux to distribute
> the closed source applications has to pay its own QT commercial license.
>

No no, I am not confuse. it is just that I am not interesting of closed
source application. This is not my problem if people working with close
source must buy a Qt licence. This is a good point for trolltech :-)

> This means that if you develop and distribute an application with your
> extension, either you open the source of your application (not just the
> extension) with GPL license or you have to pay for a Qt commercial
> license.
>
> GPL software is not free as in free beer.
>
>
>> We have discuss a lot concerning the licence problem, but do you have a
>> response for my question :-).
>
> Sorry, no. I was just suggesting that you use a different toolkit with
> non-GPL license so you could improve your chances of getting more help.
> In that case you could have your project accepted in PECL and it would
> boost your extension exposure in the PHP community and eventually get
> the you need.
>