Re: please use V

1996-11-28 Thread Tom Julien
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Removed debian-devel from the Cc: list as this is beyond Debian policy.] Followed Bruce's distribution list, but thank you for the info. Have you looked at the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License? Peter Deutsch has thought a lot about these issues.

Re: please use V

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Julien
Please note: the following is in no way intended as flame to Bruce, Debian, or the FSF... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: From: William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions

Re: please use V

1996-11-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Tom Julien wrote:' IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for not allowing modified versions may

Re: please use V

1996-11-26 Thread Mark Eichin
It's difficult enough to promote freeware in industry with the common lack of support misperception. Combine this I'd suggest that rather than fixing that with wierd licenses, you just do better marketing. Works for us :-) _Mark_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

please use V

1996-11-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. I understand their concern, I just don't share it. Debian doesn't place this sort of restriction on