Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Umm, for a completely different point: > > The header of the QPL is > > > THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE version 0.92 > > > > Copyright (C) 1998 Troll Tech AS, Norway. > > Everyone is permitted to copy and > > distribute this license document. > > They don't grant you the right to modify the text of the QPL document, > as your friend did. I'm no lawyer at all, but doesn't this mean that > your friend either has to use the verbatim QPL for his program, or he > has to came up with a similar license in his own words ? Changing the > copyright of the license document as he did seems definitely > completely illegal
That is surprising. Should I lobby Qt about changing the license on the license? > (btw., the GPL says "Everyone is permitted to copy > and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing > it is not allowed."). Yes, but you can do a license such as `GPL + this cause' right? Anyway, this puts a hold on the Debian release of the Gri package. Thanks for pointing it out.
