Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
- To: Kevin Forge <forgeltd@usa.net>
- Cc: kde-licensing@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, rdm@test.legislate.com, Rusty.Russell@rustcorp.com.au, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, ettrich@troll.no
- Subject: Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
- From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:28:27 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19981223082827.O7886@debian.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Kevin Forge <forgeltd@usa.net>, kde-licensing@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, rdm@test.legislate.com, Rusty.Russell@rustcorp.com.au, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, ettrich@troll.no
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 36809700.2EB0ADB3@usa.net>; from Kevin Forge on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 02:08:48AM -0500
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On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 02:08:48AM -0500, Kevin Forge wrote:
> > 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.
Erf, not quite that but something along that line.
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