qt-copy and Qt 4.3

Clarence Dang dang at kde.org
Fri Mar 23 04:20:05 GMT 2007


On Friday 23 March 2007 09:28, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:16:56 Clarence Dang wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 March 2007 02:42, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > The resulting qt-copy would contain files that are dual-licensed (GPL +
> > > QPL) and some GPL only.
> >
> > For the GPL only files, are they just applications or are some of them,
> > public .h's or .cpp's linked into the public libraries?
>
> The files that are only GPL licensed come from the Windows/Mac/Embedded
> Open Source editions, so they are primarily platform specific files. This
> includes .cpp files (for example qwidget_win.cpp) and public header files
> with API (for example qdirectpainter_qws.h).

My understanding is that if people develop kdelibs with a GPL Qt/Windows and 
then commit changes to kdelibs, those changes must be under the GPL, which 
would be problematic.




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