On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Erich Forler wrote: > I'm the Product Development Manager for the Corel Linux distribution. > Bruce Perens sent me a message that indicated our new Package Manager, > which is built using the Qt libraries, was likely linking your GPL > Libapt library. I have confirmed with our engineers that this does > appear to be the case. Bruce has suggested that "In the case of the KDE > programs, the copyright holders add an addendum to the GPL that > explicitly allows their programs to be linked to "libqt", or they simply > decline to prosecute for infringement in that case." Would you be > willing to make such an accommodation to us?
I am willing to make such an exception. I'll see if I can get some wording for you. > Naturally the rest of the code which was written by Corel will also be > Open Source, and while we would prefer to release it under the an Open > Source license other than the GPL, we will release it under that license > if you'd prefer. The GPL requires that your program also be GPL'd since it is linking to my GPL'd library. It is unlikely that libapt* will be placed under a license such as the LGPL that would allow a choice of licenses. Thanks, Jason
