From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 19:53:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FD5C37B423 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33595 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2000 02:53:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 21 Aug 2000 02:53:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 2359 invoked by uid 211); 21 Aug 2000 02:53:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:23:18 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Steve Price Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPL license question Message-ID: <20000821082318.B2341@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000820210627.F42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:43:14PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Price said on Aug 20, 2000 at 21:43:14: > > 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? I have no idea. IANAL... I guess it would be safer not to do this. The GPL does make an exception for proprietary libraries which are a standard part of an operating system, and my guess is Qt should allow it too since it is used on commercial unix systems. I think they would not want you to use any other kind of proprietary library, since otherwise people could simply put all their interesting stuff in a closed-source library and link it with a very minimal open source program... but I don't know what the legal position here is. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message