Re: QPL quick check

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Marc van Leeuwen wrote:

> From http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html:
> 
> However, if you have written a program that uses Qt, and you want to release
> your program under the GNU GPL, you can easily do that. You can resolve the
> conflict for your program by adding a notice like this to it:
> 
>        As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
>        with the Qt library and distribute executables, as long as you
>        follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the
>        software in the executable aside from Qt.

I think we got a better statement hammered out here on the list sometime
last year (something about giving the right to remove the Qt exception
such that code from the program can be reused in purely-GPL projects,
and a clarification that distributors needs to comply with the QPL,
too).

-- 
Henning Makholm