[buug] Licenses [Was: FREE Pass to LinuxWorld Conference & Expo]

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Thu Apr 4 09:27:03 PST 2002


Chris> whether or not there is such a bug, this seems at best to be
Chris> unprofessional and needlessly exclusive of those who might not
Chris> want to run mozilla (because they don't agree to Netscape's
Chris> Public License) or opera.

itz> For what it's worth, I have a much greater problem with the QPL
itz> (which covers the Qt toolkit on which Konqureror is based, and
itz> maybe Konqureror itself) than with [NM]PL.

Brian> Were you going to elaborate?

The "modifications only as patches" clause.

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