[patch] qlibrary_win.cpp

[Ralf Habacker]

On  2003-10-14 9:52:50 Holger Schröder wrote: 
>i think i talked about this before...
>after my understanding we cannot allow anybody to use our code under a
>different license than the gpl one.
>if we leave the tt license attributes in, we would for example allow
>commercial x11-only licensees to use qt on windows commercially with their
>x11 only licenses. i think we cannot allow anybody to do anything with the
>code, that is not bound to the gpl, so i removed all tt license statements in
>the _win classes.
>perhaps i forgot some, but that was my intention.
>i would recommend to continue in that way, to be on the safe side.

I'm going to apply some outstanding patches like this one in preparation for a 
mingw running qt release using the cygwin build system and have a question 
about this stuff. 

Do you have a template generic template file for this, so that we can give the 
users who like to provide patches something like this. 

Ralf 


>On Friday 10 October 2003 16:23, Andy Goossens wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2003 00:24, Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:
> > 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,
>
> For the moment being I would say we keep GPL and QPL in there, unless
> complications turn up. I'm wondering what TT thinks about commercial apps
> using our port.