Qt and the GPL

[David Johnson]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> > If there will be separate versions (and I hope there won't), then this
> > will be the first time (that I am aware of) that a GPLd library will
> > be available with an identical non-GPL version. 
> 
> Not quite.  Apache has dualed Artistic and GPL licenses for some time.
> Sun announced dualing StarOffice, including translation libraries, under
> LGPL and SISSL in July.  Mozilla is looking at MozPL and GPL for its own
> code, with possible use of LGPL for libraries.

I guess in a way Apache has library-like code. I was thinking in terms
of the typical dynamic link library. Although Mozilla has a few things
that count as typical libraries as well...

> It becomes somewhat like file
> permission security under Linux, though you allow *both* files and users
> to have multiple group associations.  Essentially, file belongs to
> groups Qt, GQL, and GPL.  If user belongs to any one group, user has
> access to file.  User transmits file with all three group flags, by
> default.

An interesting way of describing it. I must remember the analogy!

-- 
David Johnson
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