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From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
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Subject: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD
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Folks,

I don't want to scare anyone but today QT4 was released and their web page

(http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html)

specifically states several times that if using the free version one is 
required to release their own code under GPL. That's effectively a 
requirement to relicense which goes much further than the GPL itself. The 
former licensing amounted to "abide to the GPL or QPL" as is normal for a GPL 
project and in that case one could release code under BSDL and if anything 
let the next guy worry about it (if they want to distribute a derivative).

I think this should be discussed. I already sent the Trolls an email asking 
for clarification about this, or rather if it's as bad as it seems for us. 
Perhaps they just overlooked the *BSDs...


Dan

PS keep your flames to yourselves. This is serious.