Happy 15th birthday, free Qt

Posted May 21, 2015 0:01 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Happy 15th birthday, free Qt by andresfreund
Parent article: 20 years of Qt

Maybe, but the musings of MySQL empoyees have no impact on whether GPL'd software is free software.

Happy 15th birthday, free Qt

Posted May 21, 2015 1:50 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (3 responses)

But it does have an impact on the chances that they will sue you. Which is a good reason to stay away from people (and their software, no matter what the license) who think like that.

Happy 15th birthday, free Qt

Posted May 22, 2015 6:30 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (2 responses)

By that logic, SCO made the Linux kernel non-free.

Happy 15th birthday, free Qt

Posted May 22, 2015 18:55 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

That's exactly what they were trying to do, and they did sue people over it.

If they had not been slapped down in court (and by IBM) the way they were, they would have made the kernel non-free

Microsoft has effectively make Android non-free at this point in that they are making more money from their Android Patent shakedown than they are from Mobile Windows.

but there is a substantial difference between third parties like Microsoft making statements and the copyright owners/developers making statements. The latter case is much more significant.

Happy 15th birthday, free Qt

Posted May 25, 2015 10:43 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

They didn't *make* it non-free, they *claimed* it was non-free. Unfortunately, under the US legal system, that's often "a distinction without a difference" :-( from the victim's point of view. Hence MS's Android shakedown - if you fly the Android flag you're inviting the MS pirate to attack :-(

Cheers,
Wol