Good question, particularly as the earlier posting I quoted was not from an IBM person. However, Adrian Cho is at Object Technology International, owned by IBM and the source of Visual Age, and below is a response from him. They're interested, but are "caught" by both Java/KDE and Qt licensing.
From: "Adrian Cho" <adrian_cho@oti.com>
Newsgroups: eclipse.tools
Subject: Re: KDE SWT binding?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:34:41 -0400
Organization: Object Technology International, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:33:39 +0000 (UTC)
Are you talking about KDE or Qt? The OTI/IBM team has an initial port of
SWT Qt but it will not be released until we complete further investigation
of the legal issues due to licensing incompatibilities.
GTK+ is under LGPL and hence the SWT GTK+ binding is LGPL'ed. Qt however is
under the QPL and this license is problematic for us.
Adrian
"Guillermo Castro" <mandrake@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:ahsd87$e1h$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've been searching all around looking if someone is developing the
KDE-SWT
> binding. So far, I haven't found anything. KDE is not even mentioned on
the
> main SWT page as a future supported platform.
>
> Are there any plans to create this? If not, I would try to do it myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Guillermo Castro
> Java Developer
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