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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT)
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To: Matthew Wecksell who wrote (54)6/17/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan  Read Replies (1) of 1794
 
I have not heard about such KDE problems, but because KDE is GPL'd, there is nothing stopping someone from grabbing from RedHat and/or Caldera the required pieces to make it work. I suspect that the problem is either a compilation issue, or a version issue, but because of the GPL it is guaranteed to not be a proprietariness issue.

As for Metrowerks, they are being silly and/or lazy by requiring RedHat. But again, because RedHat is GPL, anyone who wants to run CodeWarrior on a non-redhat distribution is free to pick the required pieces out of RedHat to make it work for them. Getting support from Metrowerks may be another issue, but it is all a political/mental issue, rather than one of technology or legality, there is nothing technically or legally preventing CodeWarrior from working on a non-RedHat system.

This is the way the GPL prevents splintering.
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