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From what I've heard, GTK was born due to licensing restrictions of the older versions of Qt - Qt used to be dual-licensed, available either under a commercial
by anon4 12y ago
From what I've heard, GTK was born due to licensing restrictions of the older versions of Qt - Qt used to be dual-licensed, available either under a commercial license, or under GPL (not LGPL). Some people found that too restrictive.
- nknighthb 12y agoNo. Some people (especially the FSF) objected initially to the FreeQt license (which did not meet OSI and FSF definitions) and then the QPL[0] for a few reasons, most importantly because it was not GPL-compatible. Qt/X11's release under the GPL came quite a bit later after GTK+ and GNOME were well on their way to becoming established projects. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Public_License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Public_License
- maxerickson 12y agoIt was written for GIMP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mattis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mattis (the second quote is the most salient) I would agree that licensing concerns informed other decisions between GTK and QT though.