Re: bitkeeper

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
5 Oct 1998 09:54:16 +0200

dlang@diginsite.com (David Lang) writes:

>correct me if I am wrong about the QT licence, but isn't it still free,
>they just refuse to put the GPL on it to give it's being free more power
>then their statement " we are going to continue to have this free"

Putting the GPL on it actually removes freedom from it.

At least to me it would mean that I can no longer use qt to link to my
commercial programs (Linking commercial code to GPL code means that
the commercial code is put under GPL).

LGPL would be acceptable but not GPL. This is a _fundamental_
difference.

Kind regards
Henning

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