Integrity of source code?

[John Cowan]

Björn Terelius scripsit:

> "§4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code: The license may restrict
> source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the
> license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code
> for the purpose of modifying the program at build time..."
> 
> I am curious, are there any established open source licenses which
> utilize this part of §4?

The Q Public License, which applies to older version of the Qt library,
has this provision.  The latest version of Qt is explicitly dual-licensed
under the GPLv3 and the LGPLv2.1; however, any software licensed under
the LGPLv2.1 can be explicitly converted to either the GPLv2 or the
GPLv3 anyway.

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