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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: A more serious QPL-1.0 problem
From:       Raul Miller <rdm () test ! legislate ! com>
Date:       1999-03-12 13:47:40
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Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> 	I think a more serious GPL incompatibility of QPL-1.0 is
> QPL section 3b (my emphasis added):
...
> 	This is a further restriction to the GPL, since the GPL does
> not require such a permission grant, and it is illegal to publish
> modifications to QPL'ed software without making such a grant.
> 
> [You can stop reading here if you want.  The rest of this is just
> more detail.]

I disagree.

Take a look at section 1 of the GPL:

    1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  along with the Program.

Note two of the requirements on distribution:

(*) That the program be distributed with an appropriate 
copyright notice, and
(*) That the program be distributed with a copy of the GPL.

If the program is also being distributed under some other, additional,
license the GPL already requires that it be distributed under that
license.

-- 
Raul

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