Re: RFS: eclipse-cdt-qt
On 2012-01-17 22:05, Jakub Adam wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
>> [...]
>
> Regards,
>
> Jakub
>
>
Hi Jakub,
I checked the license notice in qswt/shared/shared_global_p.h of
eclipse-cdt-qa[1] and found:
"""
/****************************************************************************
**
** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
** All rights reserved.
** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
**
** This file is part of the Qt Designer of the Qt Toolkit.
**
** Windows(R) users may use this file under the terms of the Qt Eclipse
** Plug In License Agreement Version 1.0 as attached in the LICENSE.TXT
file.
**
** Linux(R) users may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser
** General Public License Agreement version 2.1 as shown in the
LGPL-2_1.TXT file.
**
****************************************************************************/
"""
This license in itself is discriminating against users, so it has to go
in non-free unless we can obtain it under a better license.
There is a potential loop-hole in this license via the LGPL-2.1. A
"Linux user" could take them up on the LGPL-2.1 offer (the file has no
extra restrictions) and via the terms of the LGPL-2.1 distribute the
sources under a LGPL-2.1. The only issue is there is no "definition" of
a Linux user (as far as I can tell), so I am not sure it is a "safe"
work around.
You may want to contact d-legal@l.d.o or/and upstream about this.
Alternatively, perhaps someone on-list has
~Niels
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http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/eclipse-cdt-qt.git;a=blob;f=qswt/shared/shared_global_p.h;h=ce42b1fffee39d02caaab366c4fbefc4262d5edb;hb=a20afb4872ce4c128643b1f30bd0ec5a0420cf09
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