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Re: GPLv3 suggestion to solve KDE/QT problem and others



On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:38:26PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Adi Stav <stav@actcom.co.il> writes:
> 
> > Then WHY did the FSF approve the QPL? Harmony was already on its
> > way...
> 
> Since when does the FSF "approve" of the QPL?  The GNU webpage at
> 	http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html	
> says the following:
> 
>    The Qt Public License (QPL).
> 
>           This is a non-copyleft free software license which is
>           incompatible with the GNU GPL. It also causes major
>           practical inconvenience, because modified sources can
>           only be distributed as patches.
> 
>           We recommend that you use QPL-covered software packages
>           only when absolutely necessary, and certainly don't use
>           the QPL for anything that you write.
> 
> This is hardly an indication of approval.

My bad. I meant "approved the QPL as a Free license", which they have.

	- Adi Stav



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