[talon@talon.ddns.org: Re: Upstream Email]
----- Forwarded message from "Brian E. Ermovick" <talon@talon.ddns.org> -----
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:47:49 -0500
From: "Brian E. Ermovick" <talon@talon.ddns.org>
To: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org>
Subject: Re: Upstream Email
Hrmm -- I'm not about to subscribe to -devel and all that just cause
the upstream maintainer was worrying why debian isn't accepting the Qt
license or whatever -- if you want (are already subscribed or whatever)
feel free to take this there. You've got my permission :p
-- Brian
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:45:11AM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> resend this message to debian-legal for discussion. Since you originally
> sent it to -private, only you can move the thread to another list. You have
> my permission to post my portion of this response to
> debian-legal@lists.debian.org.
>
> I have an addon clause for the GPL that enables distribution with Qt or
> another free but GPL incompatible library while maintaining the ability to
> reuse the code in your program in other GPL'd libraries. It goes as follows:
>
> GNU Hello World using Qt
> Copyright (C) 1999 Joe Programmer
>
>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
> option) any later version.
>
> You may, at your option and for the purposes of distributing this
> program in object code or executable form under Section 3 of the GNU
> General Public License, assume that the Qt library (Copyright (c) Troll
> Tech, Norway) is normally distributed with the major components of the
> operating system on which the executable or object code runs. If you
> choose not to excercise this option, you may distribute this software
> only under the terms of the GNU General Public License and may remove
> this paragraph.
>
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote:
> > Not quite sure if -devel, -private, or -mentors is the right
> > place to post this. I chose -private cause -devel gets too
> > many hits, and I'm more likely to accidentally delete my own
> > thread there, and -mentors gets too little -- figure -private
> > should get me the right amount of info. Anyways, here's the
> > thing/my question. I recently packaged tuxeyes -- which is
> > built on hence had to go in contrib (tuxeyes itself is GPL).
> >
> > I got the following email from the upstream maintainer, and am
> > not quite sure what to reply -- as I'm not well-versed on the
> > various licensing ... stuff...
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did a 'vanity search' ;) on dejanews to see if I could find anything
> > on tuXeyes, a little program I wrote, and I noticed you offered on
> > linux.debian.devel to package it.
> >
> > What are the real problems related to GPL/Qt? Is there any way I could
> > ease thing? I think it would be nice to see tuXeyes wide-spread and
> > though I knew there were some licensing problems with Qt, I thought these
> > we're solved with the QPL (or is only 2.0 and > released under this license?)
> >
> > Anyway if you have any suggestions (different license, linking against
> > Qt 2.0), I'd be happy to incorporate them. (not using Qt is not really
> > an option by the way)
> >
> > Ivo
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> > ... *SO* -- what do I reply to him about the QPL or whatever?
> >
> > thanks in advance :)
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Ristuccia
> brianr@osiris.978.org
> bristucc@baynetworks.com
> bristucc@cs.uml.edu
>
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