Re: gEDA: SPICE GUI

[Dale E Martin <dmartin@cliftonlabs.com>]

> The least restrictive license is the GPL, because it ensures that everyone
> always has access to source, while allowing you to sell software if you
> wish to. You just cannot sell software and restrict access to the source 
> code.

This argument leads us down a path of licensing religious wars.  Everyone
has their own opinion about what is freer than what - some people argue for
BSD style licensing and some for GPL.  I personally can see arguments
either way (but tend to use the GPL or LGPL for my own stuff.)  While I
think everyone should consider strongly what their own viewpoint is, I
don't know that this is an appropriate forum for arguing free software
philosphy in such general terms.

Also, these differences people have in philosphy are part of the reason
that I said "there is no one size fits all" in my view.

I tend to agree with your points (and have made a decent living partially
supporting LGPL software that I have written) but let me say again that QT
is not GPL under Windows, so I would not argue that QT is the best choice
here for everyone.  (If it was GPL under Windows I would argue strongly for
it, simply because I think it looks the best and the API seems very very
clean.)

I do find this to be an interesting discussion - I've been wondering which
toolkit to learn and was leaning towards QT...  (Most of the time I could
not care less about Windows portability.)
 
Take care,
     Dale
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Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc.
Senior Computer Engineer
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