Ping/Traceroute analyser

[d_stranz]

by providing them as GPL only my reasoning was that it may help promote or convince people to produce projects under the GPL.

Right, so it comes down to a choice between encouraging open-source projects (under GPL) vs. releasing something under LGPL to encourage as widespread use as possible. Both are fine goals. I think that the reality is that far more people work under circumstances that prevent them from using anything other than LGPL or commercial libraries.

I was happy when Nokia opened up Qt to LGPL, but I still pay for the commercial license just to avoid having to figure out how to build all of Qt in the absence (at least as far as I have been able to ascertain) of any scripts published by Qt to build it. Perhaps this will come with the switch to CMake for 6.0.

Is there anything in particular that you'd be specifically interested in?

Probably the component system, dock windows, and ribbon in that order.

[sn00p]

Right, so it comes down to a choice between encouraging open-source projects (under GPL) vs. releasing something under LGPL to encourage as widespread use as possible. Both are fine goals. I think that the reality is that far more people work under circumstances that prevent them from using anything other than LGPL or commercial libraries.

I was happy when Nokia opened up Qt to LGPL, but I still pay for the commercial license just to avoid having to figure out how to build all of Qt in the absence (at least as far as I have been able to ascertain) of any scripts published by Qt to build it. Perhaps this will come with the switch to CMake for 6.0.

Probably the component system, dock windows, and ribbon in that order.

It's all food for thought, I appreciate your thoughts/musing/suggestions on all of this.

The component system and the ribbon bar are things I certainly can release under the LGPL, the docking windows is more complex because it's something I wrote many years ago for my company and it was our first foray into releasing some stuff as open-source, I'd have to talk with my business partners about this, but it's also the project that has had third parties commit code to, so being GPL hasn't hurt it.

I guess the only way to know whether it encourages others to work on it or whether they will simply consume it under the LGPL, is to try it, obviously, there's no going back once I do this.

[d_stranz]

Obviously, and ultimately, it is up to you.

Don't know if you've seen the "Qt Advanced Docking System". Check out the video.

[sn00p]

Yeah, I've seen that. It's (from memory) a little, umm, ugly. I also seem to remember it crashing wi I seem to remember that it doesn't support pinned collapsed windows either.

The docking window library I wrote is around 10 or so years old now, it pre-dates most of the other docking libraries I've found for Qt and I think some of them have only just supported the pinning behaviour, my implementation supported it from day 1!