On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:40:27AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:22:41AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > > What is the current stance on programs that bind to qt 2.x which is > > > > using > > > > the QPL 2.0 license and are GPL'd or LGPL'd? > > > > > > Qt 2.0 with LGPL, no problem > > > Qt 2.0 with GPL, problem > > > > > > Same stance, has never changed. The GPL does not allow linking with Qt > > > 2.0. The people who write GPL apps using Qt 2.0 know this by now. KDE > > > knows it, that's for damned sure. Those authors who care have added the > > > necessary permissions. KDE hasn't and won't because then they'd have to > > > give up being able to use GPL'd code. > > > > ok...unixODBC say's this: > > > > * All programs are GPL. * > > * All libs are LGPL > > > > so..based on what your saying, the libs could go into main, but the programs > > would be non-free...(or just not distributed)... > > Since I have no idea what the HELL you're talking about, I can only assume > you're talking about mixing GPL and LGPL licenses. If you are, I suggest > reading the LGPL sometime.
unixODBC is a software package made up of libraries and a few apps which use those libraries. The libraries are LGPL'd and the apps are GPL'd. They are also linked to libqt2.1. I'm trying to find out if packages I create can be uploaded to Debian or not. :) Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
