Re: [Scribia-dev] qt

[Charles L. <da...@sy...>]

>> actually, it's distributed under both the QPL (the Qt Public License) and
>> the GPL. Scribia is currently distributed under the Artistic license, so we
>> can keep using that license and use Qt under the QPL, or move Scribia to
>> the GPL and use Qt under that license. (the Artistic license is not
>> GPL-compatible, i think.)
>
>Is it the GPL or the LGPL (since Qt is a library)? My understanding is
>that if it's the GPL, you have to release any code using it under the
>GPL also. I'm not sure how the Artistic license and the QPL interact.

it's supposed to be the GPL.

>For the record, the reason why I picked the Artistic license over the
>more popular GPL when I created the project was that the Artistic
>license makes it easier to maintain an "official" release - people
>extending the code are obligated to make their diffs publicly available
>when redistributing a changed version. And it's not as "viral" as the
>GPL is.
>
>However, we could argue about making Scribia available under *both* the
>Artistic license *and* the GPL. That way, we're free to use any GPL'ed
>code. People can pick which one to follow when they modify it.

i'd agree to that, even though i haven't contributed much, so it doesn't
really matter :)


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