Re: Having a non-free and a non-cd branch?
Raul Miller wrote:
>Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
>> The conflict between the GPL and TrollTech licences is unimportant,
>> seeing that TrollTech and KDE both consent to its being applied to
>> kde software. The result is quite clear - the kde bits can be changed
>> under GPL and the Qt bits cannot.
>
>Er.. except this conflicts with what is actually is said in the
>licenses.
>
The licences are to be interpreted by the behaviour of their authors.
What TrollTech and KDE actually do is equivalent to a variation clause
attached to the licences.
It would certainly be more satisfactory if they produced something that
did not need such a clause to be read in.
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