Qt Eclipse integration license (discriminating against group of users)
Hi, I'm working on a package for Eclipse Qt Integration [1]. Some of the source files come with following license: / ** ** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). ** All rights reserved. ** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-i...@nokia.com) ** ** This file is part of the Qt Designer of the Qt Toolkit. ** ** Windows(R) users may use this file under the terms of the Qt Eclipse ** Plug In License Agreement Version 1.0 as attached in the LICENSE.TXT [2] file. ** ** Linux(R) users may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser ** General Public License Agreement version 2.1 as shown in the LGPL-2_1.TXT file. ** / This license in itself is discriminating against users, so it has to go in non-free. But there is a potential loop-hole in this license via the LGPL-2.1. A Linux user could choose the LGPL-2.1 offer (the file has no extra restrictions) and via the terms of the LGPL-2.1 distribute the sources under a LGPL-2.1. The only issue is there is no definition of a Linux user (as far as I can tell), so I am not sure it is a safe work around. What is your opinion? Are we allowed to redistribute these files under terms of LGPL-2.1 only, or must this license be considered non-free? Regards, Jakub [1] http://qt.nokia.com/products/eclipse-integration [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/eclipse-cdt-qt.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE.TXT;h=9d9f1ec45f3299769894224e05778450d885cf81;hb=a20afb4872ce4c128643b1f30bd0ec5a0420cf09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2ae42d.9040...@ktknet.cz
Re: Qt Eclipse integration license (discriminating against group of users)
Jakub Adam jakub.a...@ktknet.cz wrote: Hi, I'm working on a package for Eclipse Qt Integration [1]. Some of the source files come with following license: / ** ** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). ** All rights reserved. ** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-i...@nokia.com) ** ** This file is part of the Qt Designer of the Qt Toolkit. ** ** Windows(R) users may use this file under the terms of the Qt Eclipse ** Plug In License Agreement Version 1.0 as attached in the LICENSE.TXT ** [2] file. My brief analysis of this license is that it is non-free. It only allows using the file in conjunction with Qt on Windows machines. It looks like a fairly standard proprietary license. This is probably here to reassure developers of proprietary software. ** Linux(R) users may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser ** General Public License Agreement version 2.1 as shown in the LGPL-2_1.TXT file. ** / This license in itself is discriminating against users, so it has to go in non-free. But there is a potential loop-hole in this license via the LGPL-2.1. A Linux user could choose the LGPL-2.1 offer (the file has no extra restrictions) and via the terms of the LGPL-2.1 distribute the sources under a LGPL-2.1. The only issue is there is no definition of a Linux user (as far as I can tell), so I am not sure it is a safe work around. What is your opinion? Are we allowed to redistribute these files under terms of LGPL-2.1 only, or must this license be considered non-free? You should contact upstream and clarify what they really want to do. In particular, ask them if it is ok for you to do what you asking. If it is not ok, then the code is not really licensed under the LGPL, and it would be good to know that. Ideally, they would remove that restriction in the license so that it would read something like ** You may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser ** General Public License Agreement version 2.1 as shown in the LGPL-2_1.TXT file. ** ** Alternately, Windows(R) users may use this file under the terms of the Qt Eclipse ** Plug In License Agreement Version 1.0 as attached in the LICENSE.TXT ** file. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120202.123118.1584880682135202000.wal...@geodynamics.org
Re: Qt Eclipse integration license (discriminating against group of users)
Jakub Adam dijo [Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:29:49PM +0100]: Hi, I'm working on a package for Eclipse Qt Integration [1]. Some of the source files come with following license: (…) ** Linux(R) users may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser ** General Public License Agreement version 2.1 as shown in the LGPL-2_1.TXT file. ** / This does not allow us to build the program under kFreeBSD or Hurd. It also does not allow our users to take the source package from Debian and build it on any system they want. Users should be able to (try to) build any part of Debian in Windows as well. In fact, do you remember there was a Debian GNU/Win32 project for some time/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203024806.ga19...@gwolf.org
