On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:21:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Now if Bob receives a copy from Alice, Alice has specifically given
> him permission (in term 2) to ``modify [his] copy [...] of the Program or
> any portion of it [...] and copy and distribute such modifications or work
> under the terms of section 1'', in which case he can modify and distribute
> Qt (a porton of the complete source code Alice gave him) as long as he:
>
> * adds prominent notices about his changes
> * distributes it under terms 1 and 2 of the GPL
> (under Andreas' interpretation people can't make binaries
> based on his alterations)
> * makes it display a note when run interactively.
There's a limitation on that last point. If the original code did not,
you don't have to make yours do it. =>
> Unfortunately Alice doesn't have the right to give him this permission,
> because she is only licensed to distribute Qt under the QPL, so Bob may
> only ``make modifications to [Qt] and distribute [his] modifications,
> in a form that is separate from [Qt]''.
I really wish they'd (Troll Tech would, that is) change that line. =p
At any rate, I still believe that were the QPL otherwise not contradictory
to sections 1 and 2 of the GPL, all would be fine. Section 1 covers
verbatim copying which the QPL permits so I won't address it.
IMO the contentions lie solely in section 2 of the GPL. Satisfy those
requirements and the license would be compatible with the GPL.
(this is all of course highly off-topic in terms of KDE... This problem
belongs to the KDE team, not to Troll Tech. It's easy to ask Troll Tech
to step in because they're in a convenient position to do so, but if they
_do_ step in, it's because they choose to rather than they need to..)
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