From kde-licensing Mon Feb 07 10:38:56 2000 From: Don Sanders Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:38:56 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Thank you Andreas Pour X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=94991993607824 I have been following the KDE/QT licensing issue with concern for over a year now, and decided to spend the weekend catching up with the last couple months of the kde-licensing archive. In particular I spent time reading Andreas Pour's comments and all the replies to them. I also spent some time just sitting down and rereading the GPL. I found Andreas' comments to be heart warming as his interpretation of the GPL closely reflects the spirit in which my contributions to GPLed software are made. Thank you very much Andreas for your rigourous analysis of the KDE/QT situation, especially: Your GPL interpretation http://lists.kde.org/?/=kde-licensing&m=94950776505266&w=2 The XFree license comment http://lists.kde.org/?/=kde-licensing&m=94950776505271&w=2 Personally I would like to see QT issued under a license no more restrictive than the GPL (or even freer). But I don't regard this as a critical issue, and in fact consider Troll Tech to be a good example of what a software company should be like. I can also see that it is possible that non-KDE developers whose GPLed code is used in KDE may have a different interpretation of the GPL than Andreas Pour's preferred one. And that it would be polite (though maybe not legally necessary) to confirm with them that redistributing their code with KDE is ok with them. I think requiring confirmation from those who directly contribute to the KDE project would be legally unnecessary and well beyond the bounds of sensible courtesy. My comments are based on my interpretation of Australian law but are not legal advice. BFN, Don.