First I just want to thank everyone who has worked with me on the QPL, we made it rule! Especially I'd like to thank Troll Tech for giving us Qt and working with us to put Qt under a license we can all agree on. Sit down and have a beer or something Trolls, you deserve it. => Of course, that doesn't mean it's quite perfect yet (naturally) and of course any problem that can be found, someone will. Attached is another mod of the QPL, this one derived from v.91 and contains only 2 fixes, in the sort of pseudodiff format I used in the first one. What changes? Not much, a wording change at the top of section 3 and a rewording of 4(c) to kill some of the complaints I've heard. Otherwise, I think it looks good. See attachment. -- Show me the code or get out of my way.
THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE version 0.91+knghtbrd1
Copyright (C) 1998 Troll Tech AS, Norway.
Everyone is permitted to copy and
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This license applies to any software containing a notice placed by the
copyright holder saying that it may be distributed under the terms of the
Q Public License version 0.91. Such software is herein referred to as the
Software. This license covers modification and distribution of the
Software, use of third-party application programs based on the Software,
and development of free software which uses the Software.
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- 3. You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
- modifications in a form distinct from the Software. The following
+ 3. You may make modifications to the Software and distribute them in a
+ form which distinguishes them from the original Software. The following
restrictions apply to modifications:
# Small wording fix
a. Modifications must not alter or remove any copyright notices in the
Software.
b. If modifications to the Software are released under this license, a
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- c. You ensure that all modifications included in the machine-executable
- forms are available under the terms of this license.
+ c. You ensure that the modifications included in machine-executable
+ forms comply with section 3 of this license.
# Not so small wording fix. 4(c) has been read by a few as ambiguous with
# section 3(b) being worded as it is. 3(b) is fine though and is nicely
# worded <EGO>especially since I wrote it</EGO> but if we say explicitly
# here which terms of the license we want them to follow, we clean it up
# nicely. (I hope.)
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