Re: FLA

Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:57:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.policies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 06 February 2003 16:31, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> but at the amount of people who by
> political reasons reject to add this clause to their code it seems to be
> even more unlikely to get everyone to agree to add this clause.

I think it leads to a very murky licensing situation when people include GPL 
licensed code in code that is licensed "GPL+Qt-exception". That either 
constitutes unlawfull relicensing and/or the exception part is void from that 
point on. Given the average (lack of) licensing-awareness of KDE 
contributors, I think this is bound to create problems down the road because 
of the lack of distinction between GPL and GPL+Qt-exception.

Instead of GPL+Qt-exception it might be clearer to use QPL or BSD instead.

Cheers,
Waldo
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