Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham drm

[Robert McGwier]

I completely agree with you.  If the source were still available,  we or 
someone else could do that.  I did not manage to keep a copy through 
various hard drive crashes.

Bob



Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:19, Robert McGwier wrote:
>   
> > No.  I was quite careful.  Qt **4*  *is released GPL to Windows.  The
> > software in question was written in Qt 3 and at the time,  there was no
> > GPL for Qt 3.  The complaint happened before Qt 4 was released for the
> > first time.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> >     
> > > On Saturday 11 March 2006 05:56, Robert W McGwier wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Here is my understanding of that situation.  He wrote it in Qt3.  There
> > > > is no Qt3 GPL license FOR WINBLOWS.  He released the source code and
> > > > when Trolltech objected, he removed it.
> > > >         
> > > This contradicts with Trolltechs statement for the Qt/Windows Open Source
> > > Edition which explicitly states that it is licensed under the GNU GPL see
> > > link below:
> > >
> > > http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/windows.html
> > >
> > > I can't see how this would stop anyone in releasing source code for
> > > software written under the terms of the GPL license.
> > >       
>
> Ok, I understand.
>
> I always had a copy of Qt 3.2.1 Non-Commerical Edition for Windows that came 
> with the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt3" ISBN 0-13-124072-2.
>
> However, I can't see how the release of application source code can be in 
> conflict with Trolltech's IP as long as none of the Qt3 resource files are 
> included with the distribution.
>
> Porting to qt4 shouldn't be much of a problem though.
>
> cheerio Berndt
>   


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