Re: Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
This is not legal advice. If you need good legal advice, hire a lawyer. Shriramana Sharma wrote: Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal.

Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal. Qt is copyrighted by Trolltech. A license provides me rights that normally only the copyright own