From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 20:15:45 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 8E05C37B423 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33618 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2000 03:15:32 -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 03:15:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 2401 invoked by uid 211); 21 Aug 2000 03:15:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:45:27 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Steve Price Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPL license question Message-ID: <20000821084527.A2396@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000820210627.F42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821075814.A2262@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000820214314.H42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <20000821082318.B2341@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000820220920.I42247@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: <20000820220920.I42247@bonsai.hiwaay.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:09:20PM -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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message