Qt and the GPL

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:54:49PM -0700, Brian Behlendorf (brian at collab.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > The BSD SW would convert to GPL, which is allowable if it doesn't
> > contain the advertising clause.
> 
> Not according to Stallman, there are issues with other clauses.  This is a
> popular misconception.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0006/msg00119.html

This appears to be specific to the Apache license.  Cf the FSF license
discussion page for the modified BSD license:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html

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