Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:09:20 -0500 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPL license question Message-ID: <20000820220920.I42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20000821082318.B2341@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:23:18AM %2B0530 References: <20000820210627.F42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821082318.B2341@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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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
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