Re: Nokia 770 Opie port?
Lorn Potter <[email protected]>
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Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:35:11PM +0100, Holger Freyther wrote: > > >>Sorry my ./configure of QtE 2 for Linux prints GPL as license, it >>does not even mention the QPL >>and I do not have a License.QPL in my directory as well. > > > Oh, indeed - QTE is GPL or proprietary only, so if I want any > modifications I make to get back into the base distribution, I need to > explicitly license it to Trolltech. The downside to this is that it > makes it very difficult for Trolltech to benefit from community work. > Producing a GPLed version that was more featureful than the proprietary > one would be an awkward business policy, so we end up with things like > the slightly weird Opie/Qtopia split. but from a community standpoint, Trolltech cannot take my free qtopia source code, and use it in a proprietary way. Thus assuring it will remain free, as it was intended and written. If my code work should be included in proprietary applications being sold somewhere, I should be compensated for my hard work. > "Linux" as opposed to Windows or MacOS X versions - they've never been > released under the QPL, to the best of my knowledge. > > (I'd tend towards "hypocrisy" rather than "irony", really. Criticising > Nokia for something that your own company claims the right to do under > certain circumstances is a bit excessive) Actually, if you want to be precise, "my" company - Trolltech Pty Ltd, who creates Qtopia software, does not use the QPL. It is our parent company, Trolltech in Oslo that uses QPL. :) -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Trolltech Qtopia Community Manager Opie Core Developer http://qtopia.net _______________________________________________ http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DeveloperWikiIndex Opie-devel mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/opie-devel