Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-18 Thread Joseph Carter
Mr. Russell, I am writing you with regard to your petition[1] to Troll Tech, AS asking them to GPL their Qt library. I felt I could not with clear conscience sign this petition and I would like in this letter to address the concerns in my mind as they relate to it. I am sending Carbon Copies of

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would almost certainly cause a rift to develop between their > Professional Edition and their Free Edition as development forks into at > least two directions, the Free Edition gaining all of the enhancements > made to the Professional Edition but the

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-18 Thread Kevin Forge
Joseph Carter wrote: Keep it up. Just curious. Is GPL compatibility essential for putting QT & KDE in Debian main ? Or would a "simple" GPL-and-link to-QT License alteration sofice ? I ask because the only item of concern for KDe are those few apps which have some GPLed code from other de

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
Kevin Forge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keep it up. Just curious. Is GPL compatibility essential for > putting QT & KDE in Debian main ? It is if KDE remains under the GPL -- otherwise, no. > Or would a "simple" GPL-and-link to-QT License alteration sofice ? Huh? > I ask because the only it