From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 20: 9:24 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 7520237B423 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:09:22 -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 e7L39KW32014; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:09:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e7L39KN44345; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:09:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:09:20 -0500 From: Steve Price To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Steve Price , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPL license question Message-ID: <20000820220920.I42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> References: <20000820210627.F42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821082318.B2341@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: <20000821082318.B2341@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:23:18AM +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 08:23:18AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: # 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. *grin* That was sort of a rhetorical question. When I replied I was musing to myself that if the 'infection' thing was true (and would standup in court) then all I need to do is write a program for Win*, link it against every .dll on the box, and when someone asks me for the source code to those just point them in to that company in Redmond. :) Come to think of it this would be a good way to get the source for just about any software running on any OS. Nah, that would never standup in court. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message