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List:       kde-freeqt
Subject:    [freeqt] Qt not truly Free Software yet...
From:       "Adam J. Richter" <adam () yggdrasil ! com>
Date:       1998-11-20 10:42:57
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Andy Tai writes:
>Sorry about the previous message I sent.  Qt is possibly not Free Software
>yet.     One key characteristic of Free Software is to allow code reuse,
>and QPL does not allow reuse of Qt's code (i.e, you cannot take a part of
>Qt and put it into another program).
>
>QPL is taking advantage of a bug in the Open source definition. It
>possibly is not truly in the spirit of Open Source.
>
>Abandoning Harmony may not be the best thing for the Free Software community.

        Well said.  Qt (and any other code covered by QPL 0.9) is
not part of the pool of recyclable software, and any contamination
issues still *theoretically* apply if you look at it and write code
other than libqt patches.

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