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 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>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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