Re: Corel Package Manager
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Erich Forler wrote:
> I'm the Product Development Manager for the Corel Linux distribution.
> Bruce Perens sent me a message that indicated our new Package Manager,
> which is built using the Qt libraries, was likely linking your GPL
> Libapt library. I have confirmed with our engineers that this does
> appear to be the case. Bruce has suggested that "In the case of the KDE
> programs, the copyright holders add an addendum to the GPL that
> explicitly allows their programs to be linked to "libqt", or they simply
> decline to prosecute for infringement in that case." Would you be
> willing to make such an accommodation to us?
I am willing to make such an exception. I'll see if I can get some wording
for you.
> Naturally the rest of the code which was written by Corel will also be
> Open Source, and while we would prefer to release it under the an Open
> Source license other than the GPL, we will release it under that license
> if you'd prefer.
The GPL requires that your program also be GPL'd since it is linking to my
GPL'd library. It is unlikely that libapt* will be placed under a license
such as the LGPL that would allow a choice of licenses.
Thanks,
Jason
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