Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Raul Miller
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [3] > c. Mods must be available as free software. A note that the Trolls >can't use stuff they can't relicense, some nice easy way to let >them relicense your code in exchange for making sure there is >always a free software vers

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:16:33 -0800, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Joseph> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:27:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph> wrote: >> > Anybody remembers who ships XEMacs ? >> >> Just about everybody, including Debian. Why? Joseph> ... Linked to les

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 05:24:29PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > [3] > > c. Mods must be available as free software. A note that the Trolls > >can't use stuff they can't relicense, some nice easy way to let > >them relicense your code in exchange for making sure there is > >

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 11:52:06PM +, James Troup wrote: > > > > Anybody remembers who ships XEMacs ? > > > > > > Just about everybody, including Debian. Why? > > > > ... Linked to lesstif ... > > Eh? No, it's not. My mistake, it's not. (in case you can't tell, I do not use emacs) -- N

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Forge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kevin Forge writes: > And perhaps they have special permission from the authors. These are > private companies. We have no way to know what private arrangements they > may have made or what their internal decision making processes are. My point was that this never c

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Forge
Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:27:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anybody remembers who ships XEMacs ? > > > > Just about everybody, including Debian. Why? > > ... Linked to lesstif ... It's older than LessTif by years if memory serves me reasonably.

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Forge
Joseph Carter wrote: > > 3. You may distribute modified copies if: > a. Mods don't change the Copyright notices > b. Your mods are distinguishable from the original source. Pretty >much defining this the way the GPL does along with Troll Tech's >preferences for mods as pat

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Forge
Kevin Forge wrote: > > Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > 3. You may distribute modified copies if: > > a. Mods don't change the Copyright notices > > b. Your mods are distinguishable from the original source. Pretty > >much defining this the way the GPL does along with Troll Tech's > >

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread john
Kevin Forge writes: > As an example NexT was "attacked" for making proprietary enhancements to > GCC. That was a clear violation of the GPL. > However the same NeXt shipped GCC linked against it's proprietary LibC > and _that_ wasn't mentioned as a problem. Because it wasn't. That is *exactly*

Re: Your petition to GPL Qt

1998-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 02:08:48AM -0500, Kevin Forge wrote: > > c. Mods must be available as free software. A note that the Trolls > >can't use stuff they can't relicense, some nice easy way to let > >them relicense your code in exchange for making sure there is > >alw