[Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans (CopperSpice)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Jul 27 00:01:04 CEST 2015


Ansel Sermersheim wrote:
> We do in fact have a CLA in place. However, our CLA has one single
> purpose. In the event that Qt is re-licensed under a BSD style license
> (whether due to the KDE Free Qt Foundation or some other reason), we
> will re-license CopperSpice under that same license. That is the only
> permission we ask from contributors.

That in turn allows everyone else, or even you, to take the code 
proprietary, so in the case this clause is triggered (which depends on Qt, 
i.e., neither on you nor on the contributor), it is functionally equivalent 
to a CLA allowing proprietary relicensing.

        Kevin Kofler




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