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Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?"
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?" |
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:01:43 +0200 |
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Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> writes:
> 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.
The license, among other things, prohibited porting to Windows. There
were quite a number of terms that put Trolltech into a special position
with regard to changes and redistribution.
The license went through several iterations. I think there was a final
time span of about a year where it was indeed meeting the criteria for
free software, but was still GPL-incompatible. And thus not worthwhile
for GNU.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?", (continued)
- 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, 2009/10/18
- Re: [LMAO] El Reg: "GPLv2 - copyright code or contract?",
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