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Re: stance on QPL 2 / GPL/LGPL license usage



On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:35:30AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:59:10AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > What is the current stance on programs that bind to qt 2.x which is using
> > the QPL 2.0 license and are GPL'd or LGPL'd?
> 
> Qt 2.0 with LGPL, no problem
> Qt 2.0 with GPL, problem
> 
> Same stance, has never changed.  The GPL does not allow linking with Qt
> 2.0.  The people who write GPL apps using Qt 2.0 know this by now.  KDE
> knows it, that's for damned sure.  Those authors who care have added the
> necessary permissions.  KDE hasn't and won't because then they'd have to
> give up being able to use GPL'd code.

ok...unixODBC say's this:

   * All programs are GPL.                                       *
   * All libs are LGPL

so..based on what your saying, the libs could go into main, but the programs
would be non-free...(or just not distributed)...

and the source could go into main....since the interreaction of the gpl and
qpl is in the .deb form...and not the source form.

that sound logical?  

Ivan

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