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Re: Qt license change



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. 

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