Re: license problem

[Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:57:18AM +0000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Although you modified QT to work with console (which looks very nice) - you 
> cannot release the modifications under LGPL as QT is GPL, and you cannot 
> release the modifications under a different licenses other then the original 
> license (in this case - GPL)..

Incorrect.  You can release the *modifications* (but not the aggregate
work of the original + modifications) under any licence, so long the
modifications' licence is compatible with the GPL.  (The LGPL certainly
is... i.e. it's possible to satisfy the conditions of the GPL and LGPL
on the same piece of code at the same time).

Perhaps their motivation was to allow Trolltech customers (with
commercial licences) to be also able to use the console modifications.

IANAL.

Andrew