Manu Rouat writes:
> Troll tech , la societe qui developpe Qt, vient d'annoncer que
> dorenavant, Qt serait ditribue sous une licence (nomme QPL)
> entierement compatible avec la definition des logiciels libres
> (Open-Source Software).
Pour info, ci dessous la licence QGL. La seule restsriction est que
les modifiction eventuelles de ls sources doit etre distrubue sous
forme des patches. D'autre part, Troll Tech peut distribue une version
ameliore "professionel" (payant ?)
THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE
version 0.9
Copyright (C) 1998 Troll Tech AS, Norway.
Everyone is permitted to copy and
distribute this license document.
This license applies to any software containing a notice placed by the
copyright holder saying that it may be distributed under the terms of
the Q Public License version 0.9. Such software is herein referred to
as the Software. This license covers modification and distribution of
the Software, use of third-party application programs based on the
Software, and development of free software which uses the Software.
Granted Rights
1. All these rights are granted provided that you accept this license.
2. You may copy and distribute the Software provided that the entire
package is distributed, including this notice.
3. You may make modifications to the Software. In order to preserve
the integrity of the unmodified version of the Software, modifications
must be distributed in the form of patches, and the following
restrictions apply to each patch:
a. Application of the patch must not modify copyright notices in
the Software.
b. The patch must be explicitly licensed by the following clauses
without additional restriction:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this patch, to deal in the patch without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the patch, subject to the following conditions: Any copyright notice
and this permission notice must be included in all copies or
substantial portions of the patch.
c. The patch must include an accurate description of the
modification, the date of the modification and the author of the
modification.
4. You may distribute machine-executable forms of the Software or
machine-executable forms of modified versions of the Software,
provided that you accompany it with this license and a description of
where the source code to the Software, plus any patches applied, may
be downloaded. This information must be put in a location where a user
of the distribution is likely to look for it.
5. You may use the original or modified versions of the Software to
compile, link and run application programs legally developed by you or
third parties.
6. You may develop application programs, reusable components and other
software items that link with the original or modified versions of the
Software under the following restrictions:
a. You make your items available in machine-readable source code
form free of charge to all users of those items. You may charge a
reasonable fee for the physical act of transferring a copy.
b. You explicitly permit users of your items to freely modify the
source code (possibly with restrictions on copyright notices,
attributions and legal responsibility), and freely redistribute
original or modified versions of the items.
c. As an alternative to (a) or (b), you may offer these
application programs, reusable components and other software items
that link with the original or modified versions of the Software under
the
Artistic license or any GPL license.
Limitations of Liability
In no event shall the authors of the Software or their employers be
liable for any lost revenue or profits or other direct, indirect,
special, incidental or consequential damages, even if they have been
advised of the possibility of such damages.
No Warranty
The Software is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING
THE WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
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