Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:29:14 + Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:08:03PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: [...] While I won't actually try to use this as an argument of fact, the majority of people I've spoken to about this don't feel happy about declaring the QPL non-free.

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:08:03 + Matthew Garrett wrote: [...] While I won't actually try to use this as an argument of fact, the majority of people I've spoken to about this don't feel happy about declaring the QPL non-free. I'm not happy either. Still, I declare the QPL non-free, because I

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:08:03 + Matthew Garrett wrote: [...] While I won't actually try to use this as an argument of fact, the majority of people I've spoken to about this don't feel happy about declaring the QPL non-free. I'm not happy either.

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the QPL is not a free license (although the Fortunately, most people disagree. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:29AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: If it was meant to include compiler-like tools, it would say the compiler used to build the executable, but it clearly avoids that. If this was true then the next sentence would not say this: However, as a special

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the QPL is not a free license (although the Fortunately, most people disagree. The lurkers support me in email They all think I'm great don't you know. You posters just don't understand

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the QPL is not a free license (although the Fortunately, most people disagree. The lurkers support me in email While I won't actually try to use

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:08:03PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the QPL is not a free license (although the Fortunately, most people disagree.

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:58:17PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:50:54AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The source code for the documentation is embedded as comments in the program source code, in a doxygen-like way. Trolltech has not, to my knowledge,

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:34:52PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Poole
Andrew Suffield writes: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:58:17PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:50:54AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The source code for the documentation is embedded as comments in the program source code, in a doxygen-like way. Trolltech

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:35:42PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:58:17PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:50:54AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The source code for the documentation is embedded as comments in the program source code, in a

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Josh Triplett
Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source code for the libraries and tools is provided.

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:37:47 -0500 Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:35:42PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:58:17PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: [...] The GPL says: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:37:47AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated

Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread halbtaxabo-debml
Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source code for the libraries and tools is provided. However, no source code is provided for the

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 03:24:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source code for the

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread halbtaxabo-debml
--- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er... huh? There is lots of material in the world that is maintained in HTML as the source format. How do you know what the source form is for this documentation if that source form has not been distributed to us? Elementary, my dear fellow

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source code for the libraries and tools is provided. However, no

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread halbtaxabo-debml
--- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er... huh? There is lots of material in the world that is maintained in HTML as the source format. How do you know what the source form is for this documentation if that source form has not been distributed to us? [Please ignore my previous

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread halbtaxabo-debml
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er... huh? There is lots of material in the world that is maintained in HTML as the source format. How do you know what the source form is for this documentation if that source form has not been

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format.

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:25:35AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trolltech releases the Open Source Edition of Qt under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from their website includes the libraries, tools like

Re: Trolltech GPL violation?

2006-01-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:50:54AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: The source code for the documentation is embedded as comments in the program source code, in a doxygen-like way. Trolltech has not, to my knowledge, released the tool they use to generate the HTML from the comments.