[patch] qlibrary_win.cpp

[Ralf Habacker]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 14:17, Holger Schroeder wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> first of all: congratulations to the kde-cygwin-3.1.4 release ! i haven't
> had time to test it yet, but from the screenshots it looks quite cool :-)

After the next kdenetwork release you may work with kmail/cygwin on a daily 
base, because it runs now mostly fine. 

> i don't understand what you need a template for here. the files i "created"
> were based on the qt/x11 ones, and for the copyright stuff, i simply
> removed the sentence, which stated, that people could use this file under
> the commercial tt license. the rest of the license disclaimer was not
> changed.
>
> this way we use qt/x11 under gpl and our work, which is based on that, is
> under the gpl too. that should be ok for everyone.

> for a template for that look at one of the files i put into cvs, they
> should all have the same modified trolltech "header".
Okay, then I will take such a modified header and put it on the website in the 
contribution section of qt3-win32, so that everyone can use it as template 
for additional contribution. 

Ralf 


>
> Holger
>
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 13:26, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > 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.
>
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