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Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?"
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Tim Smith |
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Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?" |
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:24:51 -0700 |
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In article <8763acztoq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
wrote:
> >
> > The KDE developers were operating in good faith when they dynamically
> > linked to non-GPL Qt. This is allowed under GPLv2, because Qt was
> > something normally distributed with the components of the operating
> > system on which KDE ran.
> >
> > But the FSF threw a fit over this, until the makers of Qt changed the
> > license.
>
> Huh? Qt was not merely licensed "non-GPL" but non-free. KDE relied on
It was not non-free.
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--Tim Smith
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", (continued)
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Alan Mackenzie, 2009/10/17
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Tim Smith, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", David Kastrup, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Hadron, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", David Kastrup, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Tim Smith, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", David Kastrup, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Alan Mackenzie, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", David Kastrup, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", Chris Ahlstrom, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?",
Tim Smith <=
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", David Kastrup, 2009/10/18