Re: license problem

[Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz@kde.org>]

OK, april's fool joke, could u send me big brown bag please? ;)

Hetz

On Monday 01 April 2002 00:11, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 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