Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
Kevin Forge wrote:
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> Joseph Carter wrote:
> >
> > 3. You may distribute modified copies if:
> > a. Mods don't change the Copyright notices
> > b. Your mods are distinguishable from the original source. Pretty
> > much defining this the way the GPL does along with Troll Tech's
> > preferences for mods as patches when reaonable.
> > c. Mods must be available as free software. A note that the Trolls
> > can't use stuff they can't relicense, some nice easy way to let
> > them relicense your code in exchange for making sure there is
> > always a free software version of Qt.
>
> Here is my ungramatical none-legaleas stab at 3c.
>
> Modifications to this code need to bear the same license as the original
> or a permission notice allowing Troll Tech to relicense the modification
> as QPL. Otherwise the modification will not be part of FreeQT since
> Both the Free and Profesional editions of QT must remain identical.
As if my insanity wasn't already well know, I am replying to myself.
Here is draft 2.
Modifications to QT May be licensed as QPL or GPL or Both. However
only those modifications which include a QPL license, or GPL+QPL
License will be in the official QT since both the Free and
professional
editions must be the same.
This is good since it lays out a broad freedom. your patches may be
GPL and/or QPL if ya like but no other license. This is OK since only
the GPL really cares how other code is licensed. It also goes beyond
simple encouragement of QPLing patches to lay down a blatant threat.
"If it is only GPL we won't sprinkle it with.... "
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