Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:30:56 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD Message-ID: <200506291330.56499.danny@ricin.com>
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Folks, I don't want to scare anyone but today QT4 was released and their web page (http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html) specifically states several times that if using the free version one is required to release their own code under GPL. That's effectively a requirement to relicense which goes much further than the GPL itself. The former licensing amounted to "abide to the GPL or QPL" as is normal for a GPL project and in that case one could release code under BSDL and if anything let the next guy worry about it (if they want to distribute a derivative). I think this should be discussed. I already sent the Trolls an email asking for clarification about this, or rather if it's as bad as it seems for us. Perhaps they just overlooked the *BSDs... Dan PS keep your flames to yourselves. This is serious.
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