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



Today, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:47:10AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > > > ok...unixODBC say's this:
> > > >    * All programs are GPL.                                       *
> > > >    * All libs are LGPL
> > unixODBC is a software package made up of libraries and a few apps which use
> > those libraries.  The libraries are LGPL'd and the apps are GPL'd.  They
> > are also linked to libqt2.1.  
> > I'm trying to find out if packages I create can be uploaded to Debian or not. 

> Not.  =< The binaries can't be uploaded without specific exemptions
> for Qt and any GPL'd apps that link the libs are going to have the
> same problem. This is precisely what Troll Tech won't fix and KDE
> wants to ignore.

By the way, should the shared libs also have the exception for Qt?

-- 
Jean-Christophe Dubacq



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