Re: please use V
'Tom Julien wrote:'
>
>IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine
>commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it
>provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards
>like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for
>not allowing modified versions may not include this rationale,
>but I am certainly tickled pink to see it for this very reason.
Have you looked at the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License? Peter
Deutsch has thought a lot about these issues. Why did the Qt people
not use his approach?
[Removed debian-devel from the Cc: list as this is beyond Debian
policy.]
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