Another small license issue (Re: Question)

Joost van Baal joostvb at logreport.org
Fri Sep 14 09:47:47 CEST 2001


On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Thursday 13 September 2001 17:53, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:46:21PM +0300, Plamen Bozukov wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I got the following question:
> > > What do you think about QPL license ?
> > > Is it right for lire ?
> 
> We will choose the GPL license for the Qt libraries for our Unix
> 
> > In what sense ? If you mean linking GPL code with QPL, I think it
> > isn't compatible. But I think that Qt (the major code under the QPL)
> > is dual licence now : GPL or QPL.
> 
> This is true for Unix/X, but not for windows... If we want to start porting
> Lire to windows next year, we need to be sure that our GUI efforts now can
> be ported too. Ofcourse, for Unix/X we choose the GPL license for the Qt
> libraries.
<copyright stuff snipped>

> 
> Qt seems quite portable.

As is Perl/Tk, i believe.  What makes the Qt libraries especially attractive
for us?

Bye,

Joost


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