[Development] license question, bds 4 clause license text in qtbase\src\corelib\tools\qdatetime.cpp qt5.4.1 found

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Feb 27 18:29:45 CET 2015


On Friday 27 February 2015 08:40:21 Gunnar Roth wrote:
> is the so called adevrtising clause which is know to not be kompatible with
> GPL or LPGL, so how can it be that i find this kind of license in qt source
> code? What are the obligations to follow when using commercial license?

The University of California has revoked the clause that causes 
incompatibility in all code that it owns the copyright for. Therefore, 4-
clause BSD by UC == 3-clause BSD.

There's no incompatibility, but the requirement to document remains.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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