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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: KDE licence
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11 May 2000 09:45:18 -0500
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx

The QPL is not compatible with GPL, unless the copyright holder of the
GPL software grants a special exception for it to be used in that
way.  The foundation is irrelevant in a legal sense, unfortunately.

-- John

James <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I found this licence for qt on kde.org. I know that there has been discussion 
> on
> KDE-Qt licence and whether the qt licence was compatible with the gpl licence.
> Maybe this will help clear up some things.
> 
> The licence:
> http://www.trolltech.com/qpl/
> 
> The foundation that is supposed to ensure that Qt will be free for everyone.
> http://www.kde.org/kdeqtfoundation.html
> 
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