----- Forwarded message from "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:47:49 -0500 From: "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upstream Email Hrmm -- I'm not about to subscribe to -devel and all that just cause the upstream maintainer was worrying why debian isn't accepting the Qt license or whatever -- if you want (are already subscribed or whatever) feel free to take this there. You've got my permission :p -- Brian On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:45:11AM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > resend this message to debian-legal for discussion. Since you originally > sent it to -private, only you can move the thread to another list. You have > my permission to post my portion of this response to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have an addon clause for the GPL that enables distribution with Qt or > another free but GPL incompatible library while maintaining the ability to > reuse the code in your program in other GPL'd libraries. It goes as follows: > > GNU Hello World using Qt > Copyright (C) 1999 Joe Programmer > > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the > Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your > option) any later version. > > You may, at your option and for the purposes of distributing this > program in object code or executable form under Section 3 of the GNU > General Public License, assume that the Qt library (Copyright (c) Troll > Tech, Norway) is normally distributed with the major components of the > operating system on which the executable or object code runs. If you > choose not to excercise this option, you may distribute this software > only under the terms of the GNU General Public License and may remove > this paragraph. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA > > On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > Not quite sure if -devel, -private, or -mentors is the right > > place to post this. I chose -private cause -devel gets too > > many hits, and I'm more likely to accidentally delete my own > > thread there, and -mentors gets too little -- figure -private > > should get me the right amount of info. Anyways, here's the > > thing/my question. I recently packaged tuxeyes -- which is > > built on hence had to go in contrib (tuxeyes itself is GPL). > > > > I got the following email from the upstream maintainer, and am > > not quite sure what to reply -- as I'm not well-versed on the > > various licensing ... stuff... > > > > <snip> > > > > Hi, > > > > I did a 'vanity search' ;) on dejanews to see if I could find anything > > on tuXeyes, a little program I wrote, and I noticed you offered on > > linux.debian.devel to package it. > > > > What are the real problems related to GPL/Qt? Is there any way I could > > ease thing? I think it would be nice to see tuXeyes wide-spread and > > though I knew there were some licensing problems with Qt, I thought these > > we're solved with the QPL (or is only 2.0 and > released under this > > license?) > > > > Anyway if you have any suggestions (different license, linking against > > Qt 2.0), I'd be happy to incorporate them. (not using Qt is not really > > an option by the way) > > > > Ivo > > > > </snip> > > > > ... *SO* -- what do I reply to him about the QPL or whatever? > > > > thanks in advance :) > > > > -- > Brian Ristuccia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
