Re: Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
This is not legal advice. If you need good legal advice, hire a lawyer. Shriramana Sharma wrote: Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal.

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 novembre 2007 à 21:25 +0530, Shriramana Sharma a écrit : > The question is not whether a work *includes* parts of Qt or not. The > very fact that it is dependent on Qt for its functioning makes it a > derivative work, and it *must* be licensed under the GPL when > distributed, whe

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 11 November 2007 08:55:51 Shriramana Sharma wrote: > The question is not whether a work *includes* parts of Qt or not. The > very fact that it is dependent on Qt for its functioning makes it a > derivative work, and it *must* be licensed under the GPL when > distributed, whether in source

Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal. Qt is copyrighted by Trolltech. A license provides me rights that normally only the copyright own

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wesley J. Landaker wrote: >>> 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating >>> 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. >> Well, they could distribute the source code under the BSD, as the >> source code

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Wesley J. Landaker wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. Well, they could distribute the source code under the BSD, as the source code isn't a derivative work of Qt just by using it. But they

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-10 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
only. Again, now there is no GPL code, so you could distribute source or binaries under the BSD. There seems very straightforward and obvious. Is there something different that you were expecting? For one thing, this has nothing to do with "rescuing" code from the GPL -- the only

"rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. Please inform me kindly if this Q is OT for this list. I have a question. I will illustrate it by means of a highly simple programming situation. Please look at the following images (each is only 6 KB) to get a syntax-highlighted program. http://h1.ripway.com/jamadagni/01-noqt-nothir