Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > If Someone™ contributes a Qt port, that might > > do as well (there was a port of XEmacs to Qt several decades ago, so > > it definitely feasible). > > Qt has a grave problem: its license. It is released undeer GNU GPL > version 3 _only_. That means that if someday we have a GPL version 4, > when we upgrade Emacs to GPL version 4-or-later, it will be > license-incompatible with GPL 3. > > The Qt developers might change to GPL 3-or-4, but we can't assume they > will do so. We can keep the Qt port in isolation from the rest of Emacs, and then, if we ever upgrade to GPL version 4-or-later, we can kick out the port until Qt also upgrades their license. > > Use of C++ is another problem. Yeah, writing C++ may seem to be pleasant, but it becomes horrible when you get an compile error with a thousand lines backtrace of types and templates. -- Akib Azmain Turja Find me on Mastodon at @akib@hostux.social. This message is signed by me with my GnuPG key. Its fingerprint is: 7001 8CE5 819F 17A3 BBA6 66AF E74F 0EFA 922A E7F5