On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:38:26PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Adi Stav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Then WHY did the FSF approve the QPL? Harmony was already on its
> > way...
>
> Since when does the FSF "approve" of the QPL? The GNU webpage at
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
> says the following:
>
> The Qt Public License (QPL).
>
> This is a non-copyleft free software license which is
> incompatible with the GNU GPL. It also causes major
> practical inconvenience, because modified sources can
> only be distributed as patches.
>
> We recommend that you use QPL-covered software packages
> only when absolutely necessary, and certainly don't use
> the QPL for anything that you write.
>
> This is hardly an indication of approval.
My bad. I meant "approved the QPL as a Free license", which they have.
- Adi Stav
