Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-19 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. On Saturday 18 November 2000 04:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're aquainted with how a linker works? [...] On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:49:11AM -0800, David Johnson wrote: For a few linkers, maybe. For others no. [...] If I may ask a meta-question here... This question has

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:49:11 -0800 On Saturday 18 November 2000 04:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're aquainted with how a linker works? It's the linking of object code plus libraries which creates the machine-code executable. For

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-18 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:53:23PM -0500, Eric Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, David Johnson wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have held, in Mai v. Peak) a

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-18 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:44:39PM -0800, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 09:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The legal test of copyrightability (what is copyrightable) is "original works of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium" [1]. Or at least

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-18 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:46:01AM -0500, Eric Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how this follows. You don't see how what follows? That linking is a corrolate of Mai v. Peak, or the principles established in Mai v. Peak?

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Tilly
David Johnson wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have held, in Mai v. Peak) a program in memory meets the fixed and tangible requirements of copyright law, and is therefore a copy under

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-17 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, David Johnson wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have held, in Mai v. Peak) a program in memory meets the fixed and tangible requirements of copyright law, and is

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 05:29:20PM -0800, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is that, if a program is a work, and if (as the courts have held, in Mai v. Peak) a program in memory meets the fixed and tangible

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-17 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:22:57PM -0800, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 08:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard this before, but I've always dismissed it as hearsay. I will have to look up Mai v Peak. The implications of this are

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-17 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 17 November 2000 09:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The legal test of copyrightability (what is copyrightable) is "original works of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium" [1]. Or at least the second part of that. This seems to be a different issue. Those are good

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-13 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:53:23PM -0800, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2000 11:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will a BSD or MIT application even be able to use these #ifdefs so that the end user can recompile in private? Oblig: IANAL It's

Qt/Embedded

2000-11-12 Thread David Johnson
When Trolltech announced that they were offering their Qt/Embedded product under the GPL, I initially assumed that it would be a dual GPL/QPL license just like Qt/X11. I was wrong. It is only under the GPL and their proprietary license. This brings up an interesting quandery. There are lots

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-12 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:40:10PM -0800, David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When Trolltech announced that they were offering their Qt/Embedded product under the GPL, I initially assumed that it would be a dual GPL/QPL license just like Qt/X11. I was wrong. It is only under the GPL

Re: Qt/Embedded

2000-11-12 Thread David Johnson
On Sunday 12 November 2000 11:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will a BSD or MIT application even be able to use these #ifdefs so that the end user can recompile in private? Oblig: IANAL It's generally accepted that the MIT license is convertible to GPL, as is BSD without advertising