On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:39:49PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > 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. This is Version 0.9 of the QPL. Not 1.0. Please write a mail to the Troll's with the debian wishs. Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux »Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !«
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