Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Freeciv's Qt client

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 06, Martin Willemoes Hansen decided to present us with:
> 
>> This was announced on most public places (the new
>> license). Why didn't you take a look there before
>> stopping the client develpoment?

I don't know if development stopped. I remember that I and
others suggested that the Qt client should be _suspended_ till
the new Qt is out - or, if the developer wished to continue,
then that it not be _distributed_ till then.

Where is the person in question?

> Okay folks what will this new license make of a 
> difference than the old one?

It was designed with the explicit goal of making linking with
GPLed code possible, and has been reviewed by OSI, Debian and
even RMS. I can't personally attest for the final result
(haven't checked as it doesn't interest me) but the general
feeling seems to be that it's ok.

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