On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:34:52PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> <halbtaxabo-debml@yahoo.com> writes: > >> > >> > Trolltech releases the "Open Source Edition" of Qt > >> > under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from > >> > their website includes the libraries, tools like > >> > qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source > >> > code for the libraries and tools is provided. > >> > > >> > However, no source code is provided for the .html > >> > documentation files. > >> > >> The "source code" for the documentation is embedded as comments in the > >> program source code, in a doxygen-like way. > >> > >> Trolltech has not, to my knowledge, released the tool they use to > >> generate the HTML from the comments. > > > > Then we do indeed have (yet again) a non-redistributable Qt bundle - > > the GPL explicitly includes such tools as 'source', with the singular > > exception that it doesn't include things normally shipped with the > > operating system (like generic compilers). > > It's also licensed under the QPL, which does not have this requirement. Unfortunately the QPL is not a free license (although the GPL-compatibility issue does not apply here). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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