Re: Qt license change
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 13:13:42 +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> > This restriction looks incompatible with the GPL.
> It is not incompatible with DFSG in this matter and that's the important
> part.
Determining if the QPL is DFSG-free is important, but so is determining
compatibility with the GPL. There is currently a lot of code that uses Qt
available under the GPL (e.g. KDE); even when Qt is DFSG-free there may
still be a licensing problem with such code; fixing such a licensing problem
is likely to be non-trivial for a large project like KDE.
> I don't see anything in the QPL allowing anybody to _sell_ Qt. Maybee it's
> a matter of words but does distribution include selling?
That's an interesting question. There is an explicit part about fees under
6, but that's about applications and such linked against a QPL-ed library,
not about a QPL-ed library itself.
Ray
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