Re: Qt, GPL, Artistic

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 BSD, MIT, Artistic, and LGPL are all convertible to GPL.

Artistic isn't convertible to GPL: It requires project forks to take
new names, which is not a GPL-compatible requirement.

(I'm not surprised you'd think it was convertible, though.  Perl is
dually licensed Artistic+GPL, and it's easy to confuse Perl with the
license it pioneered.)
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Re: Qt, GPL, Artistic

[kmself]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:25:58AM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  BSD, MIT, Artistic, and LGPL are all convertible to GPL.
 
 Artistic isn't convertible to GPL: It requires project forks to take
 new names, which is not a GPL-compatible requirement.
 
 (I'm not surprised you'd think it was convertible, though.  Perl is
 dually licensed Artistic+GPL, and it's easy to confuse Perl with the
 license it pioneered.)

Modulo the name change, Artistic code itself can be GPDld.  It's not
quite transparent, but pretty darned close.

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