Release comercial application's sources as GPL but with restriction in usage

[Lawrence Rosen]

Congratulations on being allowed to use a license that I've been told is
deprecated by its own author. I've been informed that Trolltech doesn't
itself even use the QPL. Is that true?

/Larry

Lawrence Rosen
Rosenlaw & Einschlag, technology law offices (www.rosenlaw.com)
3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482
707-485-1242  ●  fax: 707-485-1243
Author of “Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom 
               and Intellectual Property Law” (Prentice Hall 2004)
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan at reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:44 PM
> To: David Ryan
> Cc: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: Release comercial application's sources as GPL but with
> restriction in usage
> 
> David Ryan scripsit:
> 
> > Its because no other licenses have this clause that I am creating a
> > license which has this effect.  The QTPL is quite thin in many other
> > areas which is why it can't really be used.  I think this clause creates
> > a good ground for business developers to release high quality code well
> > maintained source into the open source community.
> 
> I've gotten permission to reuse the text of the QPL, provided all
> references
> to the QPL and Trolltech are excised.
> 
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