On Nov 20, 2007 8:36 AM, Bill Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > >> Anyway, the GPL stuff still stands. > > > > Why don't you make the Qt dialog source GPL, then? > > With those restrictions, some Linux distributions will either strip the > > Qt dialog from the source or move whole cmake to an unofficial > > repository. Allowing everyone to change the source code (and distribute > > the result) is greatly preferred. > > > > People can change it all they want, it just won't get accepted upstream. > I don't want to be forced to accept a license that I don't agree > with. BTW, qt itself has the same sort of license. Trolltech does not > accept changes from the community other than small bug fixes. This is > so they can maintain the dual license that they have. I don't think > there are linux distros that have stopped distribution of Qt are there?
Stopping distribution of Qt isn't the issue. Stopping distribution of semi-proprietary apps that use a Qt commercial license is the issue. I'm looking around to see if there have been any flaps over this. Meanwhile, here's their license overview. http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
