Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread Ch'Gans
On 22 July 2016 at 21:49, André Somers wrote: > > > Op 22/07/2016 om 11:41 schreef Ch'Gans: > >> On 22 July 2016 at 20:25, Jean-Michaël Celerier >> wrote: I was pointed out that there's a potential LGPLv3 license >>> >>> infringement, although I understand where the FUD is coming from,

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread André Somers
Op 22/07/2016 om 11:41 schreef Ch'Gans: On 22 July 2016 at 20:25, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: I was pointed out that there's a potential LGPLv3 license infringement, although I understand where the FUD is coming from, I think that it is OK to read LGPLv3 source code to get inspired as long

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread Ch'Gans
On 22 July 2016 at 20:25, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: >> I was pointed out that there's a potential LGPLv3 license > infringement, although I understand where the FUD is coming from, I > think that it is OK to read LGPLv3 source code to get inspired as long > as you don't blindly copy/paste code

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread Ch'Gans
On 22 July 2016 at 20:10, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > Hi, > > My personal experience is that it will depend on the countries in > which you develop > and distribute your software. > > In France for instance software are protected by "author's rights" which > implies > that to be protected a piece o

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
> I was pointed out that there's a potential LGPLv3 license infringement, although I understand where the FUD is coming from, I think that it is OK to read LGPLv3 source code to get inspired as long as you don't blindly copy/paste code (In my case i checked out quite a few articles and forum thread

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-22 Thread Benjamin TERRIER
Hi, My personal experience is that it will depend on the countries in which you develop and distribute your software. In France for instance software are protected by "author's rights" which implies that to be protected a piece of code must have some kind of creativity and/or originality. So my g

Re: [Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-21 Thread Marian Beermann
It's highly unlikely any programmer here will give legal advice on this list. Cheers, Marian ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest

[Interest] Is it a LGPLv3 infringement to copy paste qFuzzyCompare implementation

2016-07-21 Thread Ch'Gans
Hi there, I've recently added a "bool FuzzyCompare(float f1, float f2)" function to a proprietary software I'm currently paid to work on (this is plain C++ project, it doesn't use the Qt framework at all). Being a more-than-happy Qt user in my spare time I decided that I would first checkout the q