[Freeciv-Dev] Re: KCiv?

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are all these license questions really relevant to freeciv? Would it be
better that those who are interested discuss them privately, or ask for an
opinion from the lovely denizens of license-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andreas Kemnade
> Sent: 09 August 2001 16:25
> To: Gaute B Strokkenes
> Cc: Trent Piepho; freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: KCiv?
>
>
> 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
>
>