From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Closing displays GTK+ bug Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:20:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83zhbcg6s4.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1wng2ki.fsf@linaro.org> <83o8rrenn1.fsf@gnu.org> <83blnre6az.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="105925"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , alex.bennee@linaro.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 11:23:21 2020 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 1jPNDU-000RNV-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44552 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNDT-00037k-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNBO-0008VK-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNBM-0007BE-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from woodpecker.gentoo.org ([2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]:59835 helo=smtp.gentoo.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNBK-00071z-04; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from themis (dslb-094-219-027-241.094.219.pools.vodafone-ip.de [94.219.27.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F08FD34F248; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:21:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:25:34 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:247163 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Richard Stallman wrote: > Qt has a fatal flaw (from our point of view) -- it is released only > under GPL versions 2 and 3. If we ever need to make a GPL version 4, > we will want to advance Emacs to GPL 4-or-later. If we depended on Qt, > we would be blocked from upgrading the license version. We must not > get into that difficulty. > So we must avoid using Qt. IIUC, only a few add-on components of Qt are licensed under the GPL. Its core libraries are licensed under the LGPL, version 3.