Qt, GPL, Artistic

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:25:58AM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to kmself at ix.netcom.com:
> > BSD, MIT, Artistic, and LGPL are all convertible to GPL.
> 
> Artistic isn't convertible to GPL: It requires project forks to take
> new names, which is not a GPL-compatible requirement.
> 
> (I'm not surprised you'd think it was convertible, though.  Perl is
> dually licensed Artistic+GPL, and it's easy to confuse Perl with the
> license it pioneered.)

Modulo the name change, Artistic code itself can be GPDld.  It's not
quite transparent, but pretty darned close.

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