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Re: Qt license change



On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 11:25:59AM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > Yes.  One nit:
> > 
> > Paragraph 3b appears to essentially put patches in the public domain.  I
> > assume that what they intend is that they be put under the QPL.
> 
> Hah.  Don't be fooled.
> 
> They want to be able to relicense your patches for the commercial Qt.  This
> isn't such a bad thing to want, and I don't think it conflicts with the
> DFSG.  (If they didn't require this, commercial Qt would soon fall way
> behind the free one -- then Troll Tech has a problem.)

The NPL has a similar bit of wording..

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