[Qt-interest] Qt examples licensing

[Denton Vis]

Thanks guys.
I will be doing some more research into this.

"David Boddie" <david.boddie at nokia.com> wrote in message 
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> Denton Vis wrote:
>
>> I started using a Qt example class as a building block for my own. After
>> customizing and redoing a lot of stuff to my taste, the class little, if
>> not nothing, in common with the original Qt source.
>>
>> I was just wondering, if I can remove the Qt comment block at the
>> beginning of the file and put the generic GPL open source comment block 
>> at
>> the beginning. Or am I constrained to keep it there since I started from
>> their code.
>
> Warning: I am not a lawyer; this is just my impression.
>
> I would compare the original and the current source code to see what they
> have in common. If there's very little in common (just a few lines of 
> code),
> or there are parts which people would call "boilerplate" (use of common
> idioms), then you could say that the code is not derivative, even if the
> process that created it involved derivation of some other code.
>
> To play it safe, you could still retain the original copyright attribution
> and GPL license text and add your own copyright attribution to cover your
> work, but this would mean that you couldn't unilaterally relicense the 
> code
> at some later time if you wanted to.
>
> Like I said, I'm not a lawyer, so you should seek further advice.
>
> Good luck!
>
> David
> -- 
> David Boddie
> Senior Technical Writer
> Nokia, Qt Software