From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 19:44:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3FE37B422 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bonsai.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-36.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.36]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7L2i3W13095; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:44:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e7L2hcL44168; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:43:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:43:14 -0500 From: Steve Price To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPL license question Message-ID: <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> References: <20000820210627.F42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:58:14AM +0530 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:58:14AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: # > This sort of sounds like the GPL to me. If I write a piece of code # > that for instance links to libqt, does that also mean that I have to # > release the code for my application or just my changes if any to the # > libqt source? # # You have to release the source code of your own application. If you # don't want to do that, you can buy a commercial license from Troll # Tech. According to one of their people (on Freshmeat some time ago), # they are doing this because they don't believe the GPL can be enforced # against dynamic linking; if they get clear legal advice that a program # dynamically linked against a GPL'd library must be released under the # GPL (which is how the FSF intends it, as opposed to linking with an # LGPL'd library), they would be willing to use the GPL for Qt too; but # apparently their lawyers disagree with the FSF on the legal validity # of this, and it hasn't been tested in court. That's what I surmised. One more question if I may. Let's suppose I have an application that links against a set of proprietary libraries and libqt. I need to release the source for the 'controller' app under the QPL, but does it infect the proprietary source and require me to release the code to it as well? Thanks for the response. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message