[CMake] Copyright.txt

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:56:23AM +0000, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:54:17PM +0000, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> >> Bill Hoffman wrote:
> >>
> >> >When is the feature freeze?
> >>
> >> I just checked and no file in the QtDialog has the old license in it.
> >> They all refer to the one here http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html
> >> which is pure BSD.   So, there should not be a problem, as this is the
> >> only app that is part of CMake that uses QT.
> >
> >  Qt binaries _are_ GPL, and the qmake gui is a derived work, hence it
> > really causes problems. GPL also covers binaries, not only sources.
> 
> If the GUI is under the (new) BSD License and the sources are
> available, there is no issue to use the GPL QT. The new BSD license is
> compatible with the GPL (as of v2, no idea about v3). It is not really
> useful for a company willing to use the GUI in a proprietary product
> because of the GPL dependency (but if it removes this dep, no problem
> anymore).

  Don't mind me, QTdialog is the name of the directory in CMake that
generates cmake-gui doh. okay it's probably good then.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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