Re: Qt license change
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On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 16:14:44 +0100, luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
> i am not entirely sure here, but it seems to me that you can produce a
> commercial app with GPL stuff, and sell it.
Yes. See RMS, "Selling Free Software",
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/selling.html .
> It is true that this is an interpretation of it, and not very clear, i think
> this is a choice debian will have to make. In any case i feel this license
> change is not enough for debian to consider building a distrib around kde,
> beside the other issues like C vs C++, and other such. You can still ship it
> in non-free though, what was not possible before.
Only if the QPL is compatible with the GPL; which it looks like it isn't.
Ray
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