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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: New QPL online
From:       Richard Stallman <rms () gnu ! org>
Date:       1999-03-13 10:59:26
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    So what is the real issue then?  Why is it so bad that there is this
    extra restriction?

If you release a program under the GPL, and tell people to link it
with Qt, this clause 6c puts you in a contradictory position *with
regard to the copying conditions on your own code*.

With the early draft of to QPL, there was no such problem.  That
version of the QPL was incompatible with the GPL, but you could
resolve that problem simply by saying, "I give permission to link this
code with Qt."

That is no longer true, because this problem is of a more pervasive
kind.

    Sure, the QPL is not exactly the GPL, but if you are going to insist that
    it be precisely the GPL,

I am not asking for the QPL to be the same as the GPL, but I hope it
will at least allow the KDE developers to release their code under the
GPL without putting their code in a confusing status.

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