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Re: Recently released QPL



Montreal Fri Mar 12 11:35:53 1999

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone looked at the final QPL yet? I'm curious if it is GPL
> compatible now, and if not exactly why not.

The GPL requires you to distribute a derivative product under the
terms of the GPL.  QPL will not let you distribute Qt under the GPL.
Can they ever be compatible?

> One of the reasons I'ld like to know is that Corel is currently thinking
> of basing their products on KDE, in order to differentiate from RH which
> only supports GNOME. 

I'm sure Corel has its own lawyers.  Btw, Rawhide (development version 
of Red Hat) includes KDE.

-N.


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