[Freeciv-Dev] Re: KCiv?

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gaute B Strokkenes writes:
 > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
 > >> That's imprecise.  People (rightly) bitched that the GPL and the
 > >> old Qt license are incompatible.  To be more precise, if you create
 > >> a work that is a derived work of a number of components, you must
 > >> respect the licenses of all the works involved if you wish to
 > >> distribute it.
 > > 
 > > But does porting software to use a widget library create a derived
 > > work?  I don't think so.
 > 
 > Sure it is.  If it was not the case, then e.g. Troll Tech would have
 > no legal basis for demanding that people who wish to make Qt programs
 > conform to the Qt license.  Think about it.
 > 
 > > You might as well say that the gtk/windows port of freeciv is a
 > > derived work of microsoft's libraries, because it links with them.
 > 
 > It is.
I'm not shure. Does it depend on windows??? You can also use wine
(AFAIK even without having windows installed but I have not tested
that) to run it. So it can
also be considered as a derived work of wine. I'm mostly using wine
to test the windows client without gtk.  

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade