Qtopia-interest Archive, February 2008
Consistency of the LICENSE.GPL files
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Hey,
I have checked in the rsync snapshot into a git repository and always wondered
why the LICENSE.GPL changes after invoking configure. Today I was curious and
looked into the configure script.
It looks like the configure script first unlinks /LICENSE.GPL and then is
copying another license to the directory. Shouldn't this happen at
distribution time? Anyway I was curious and typed find . -name LICENSE.GPL
into my shell and found:
./src/libraries/qtopiacomm/bluetooth/standalone/LICENSE.GPL
./LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/tools/linguist/LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/tools/qtconfig/LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/tools/qconfig/LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/tools/qvfb/LICENSE.GPL
./qtopiacore/qt/tools/assistant/LICENSE.GPL
The licenses in qt/tools/ seem to be identical. The one in
bluetooth/standalone and./ are not the same. and ./LICENSE.GPL
and ./qtopiacore/qt/LICENSE.GPL are not the same as well.
It would be cool to see some consolidation there: At least the FSF address
should be correct, and then having one license files or two (one for Qt and
one for Qtopia). Also it might be wise to extend the OpenSSL exception to the
code in Qtopia as it is using OpenSSL as well?
comments?
z.
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