From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Abysmal state of GTK build Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:44:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ilmlluxq.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87ilmlluxq.fsf@yahoo.com> <83h725deo3.fsf@gnu.org> <87bksdltah.fsf@yahoo.com> <87r119bni8.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25686"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 05:49:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQKuW-0006Vt-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQKuV-0006ZO-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQKq3-0007bD-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQKq3-0003C0-1c; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:44:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=LGZ8EgsPLPqH4nvsav0a2NyXyDRfHeX9/zYOcd29gjE=; b=SH8E7yS07J0g 1tCbr0ofJ0vk38NC09IvyM8oS0ylE/JfPaXcgk5r8NS9SlPjM7DQpOHh3luAgFt9hx5f5LLN5fv4L UqPXEcvaCjk12vkhlyDI7SWs7aOu8T5rtf1vDRP2UKIQUFEtSOERj6cM65eMhkcWkjpeHpIaeNpBN fYbWStvqQVLMUrh+zKlmVdOJi8s2Goc6MfL8//1Z9Q9G3y53neuHxdMpvhmfTAGo507QxUEqAo7L6 jLKT1dJw3l0234ZrD4TUvtuaV/pGDF7P0YRBsDTUflt4S/yjyAtLiSQiLBxhM5rtRtbrG7EGIwrok 59U2o8OQ/acjMsYHsaVxRw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQKq2-0007ww-JE; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:44:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r119bni8.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:54:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:293838 Archived-At: [[[ 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. Use of C++ is another problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)