On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:12:42PM -0700, Bruce J. Perens wrote: > > > (scrawling on the screen of my Palm-Pilot) > > > > > > DO NOT LGPL, that would let them make the front-end non-free. Qt > > > exception is fine. > > > > Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Is there a form of non-free they > > could get away with that wouldn't force them to pay royalties to Troll > > Tech, though? If not, I hardly see them creating a new, unforseen expense > > for themselves at this stage. > > They actually did email me, so we can do something now.. I said I'd add an > exclusion for QT/QPL or something - but I really don't know what a > practical wording for such an exclusion would be.
Btw this will mean that you won't be allowed to use other people's GPL code in libapt-pkg, right ? Greg
