On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 09:02 +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> Od: Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>
>
> I think the WTFPL short name should keep the version number,
> WTFPL-2 was
> better IMHO.
>
> The text of the QT license exception is still missing the LGPL
> exception
> text. I suggest at least the changes included in the attached
> patch.
>
> Since the license text of the QT commercial license is not
> known, and
> appears to be specific to each commercial licensee (because
> you need to
> contact them first, it's likely part of the contract
> negotiation), I
> would drop the QT_COMMERICAL license option too and just use:
>
> License: GPL-3.0+ or LGPL-2.1 with Digia Qt LGPL Exception 1.1
>
>
> Done and uploaded to debian mentors.
Well, there were lots of discussion regarding this...
So if you wonder what to use now, I (still) think that you should use
this: (or like; I didn't make it beautiful, like identation...
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