[patch] qlibrary_win.cpp

[David Fraser]

Dave Brondsema wrote:

>Quoting "Thiago A. Corrêa" <thiagoacorrea at uol.com.br>:
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>>But that's not the only place where there will be issues... I fixed some
>>myself from kde-cygwin's version merging them into mine ( as I have UNICODE
>>defined by default )
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>Eventually (after we get it mostly functional), we should make sure we implement
>these better solutions everywhere.  Not just this unicode thing, but everywhere
>that compile-time macros come into play.  Because we may not notice bugs if they
> only arise under different compilation circumstances.
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>>About license: I belive we can choose to only release the _win.cpp under
>>GPL... the rest says that ppl who own a TT license can produce commercial
>>stuff... I belive those who do have a license won't want our "bugged
>>version" *smile*. But I guess it would be nice to TT if we keep their same
>>license, allowing those with a license from TT to produce commercial apps,
>>this way, they can merge our code into their code base, if we happen to do
>>sth better than theirs.... honestly it's not very likely to happen soon, I
>>read an article saying they have sth like 60 programmers working on Qt,
>>while we have... some 3 (?).
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>>Notice however that sometimes we change just a couple of lines ( or doesn't
>>change at all, as in QFile ) of the _unix.cpp or _x11.cpp to port, and those
>>original files are GPL + QPL, so, I suppose we can't take out QPL of
>>those.... I think the safer approach is to simply copy the license header
>>from the _x11.cpp we are porting.
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>>Anyway, I like the idea that TrollTech could benefit from our efforts
>>anyway... And it should, at least it should attract more programmers who
>>don't have 2k dollars to spend.
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>I agree.  And we play on the safe side by dual-licensing our code.  Meaning,
>Trolltech can't ever say "you modified some of our code and removed the QPL
>license".
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Except that I think the GPL explicitly allows you to do that...
Because it is dual licensed, you could, if you wanted to, reduce it to 
plain GPL.

David