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Qt For The Console

Posted by timothy on from the better-not-be-an-AF dept.

lintux writes: "You probably know Qt as the fine toolkit for the less-fine X. Today something cool reached a stable state: Qt for the console. A Qt library port which allows you to port Qt programs to the console! Just imagine a full-featured web browser like Konqueror, on a 386 text-machine! I tried some things, and I never want to use w3m or lynx again, I can tell you that!" Update by HeUnique:While I do approve of the job these guys have done on console QT, I believe they may need to properly relicense their project under the GPL.

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  1. Holy crap. by redhatbox · · Score: 5, Interesting


    From the QT-Console home page:

    "You might think we are sick or some console perverts. We do admit, we are console perverts, but consider this: why not? :)"

    As an illustration of just how sick these guys really are, I encourage /. readers to examine the following screenshot: Slashdot home page in Konqueror, ASCII mode. Notice the elegant Slashdot logo rendered in text. That, my friends, is a sure sign of a fiendish mind at work :).

  2. Re:April Fools isn't until tomorrow by The+slack+boy+KIPPLE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    depends where you are in the world.

    it's 01:20 here in london now...

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  3. Re:LGPL? YES you can by Glorat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, let me be perfectly clear about this having seen the source to this. Actually, they can license this under LGPL. The reason is the same reason why WINE can be licensed under LGPL and not whatever proprietary licence Microsoft uses

    The reason is, having seen their code, is that they do NOT actually use code from the QT libraries at all but they purport to emulate the interface instead. Any indication to the contrary would be a misccmmunication by the authors

    So basically, since the source code consists of nothing but cout , I am sure their licensing choice is just fine =)