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Exception statementsException statementsPosted Mar 18, 2004 19:03 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421)In reply to: Exception statements by mmutz Parent article: The GPL and library code
If TrollTech needs to distribute Qt under the Lesser GPL, so that GPL'ed software can run under Windows, then that is a problem with the GPL, no? Nope, that is the design of the GPL: if you put your code under the GPL, it is precisely in order to prevent it from being combined with proprietary code (e.g. Qt for Windows). This is entirely separate from the MySQL issue, which was combining with incompatibly-licensed free-software code. Their solution, which seems like a kind of GPL + pseudo-LGPL-for-free-software-only, is interesting...the main question is whether it opens up some loophole or other problem that is not immediately obvious. I'd like to see the FSF's legal counsel comment on it for this reason.
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