Re: [Freeciv-Dev] qt-Freeciv client !

[Nicolas Brunel <brunel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Knowing that freeciv is under GNU license version 2.

Here what i saw on http://www.troll.no/qtfree.html

Version 1 (eg. version 1.42) of the Qt Free Edition is released under the
Qt Free Software License. This basically says that you are allowed to use
it free of charge
provided that you release any code and programs you make with it as free
software. 

The Qt Free Edition may be freely copied and distributed, put on ftp-sites
and CD-ROMs etc. as long as the archive is an unmodified copy of the
original distribution
available here. 

Please note that the Qt Free Edition version 1 is itself not free
software, in the usual meaning of the term. You are not allowed to make
modifications to the Qt Free Edition
itself. This makes it non-free according to the common Linux/GPL
definition of free software. 

I think the original authors of freeciv have to signed papers to use
a gpl license. I don't see in the gpl license why every contributors 
will have to agree to the use of qt ?

Regards,