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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:45:27 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QPL license question
Message-ID:  <20000821084527.A2396@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <20000820220920.I42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:09:20PM -0500
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Steve Price said on Aug 20, 2000 at 22:09:20:
> *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. :)

Actually there is no Qt free edition for Windows.  Too bad :-)

> 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.

I guess that's why the GPL has that exception for standard system
software.


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