[H-GEN] GPL -> Non-GPL licence change

[Ian Pulsford]

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Anthony Towns wrote:

> Uh, the GPL's actually a pretty good license for "if you want to use it
> for commercial (read: proprietry, closed source) purposes, pay me money",
> and that's the reason Qt is now available under the GPL.

Proprietary?  No, because you have to release the sources to me freely
accessibly or at a nominal fee for distribution media.  But because you
can do that, noone can realistically compete therefore nobody makes any
money, employs anyone, etc..  Oh yeh, every is employed in service
rather than development; pull the other one.


IanP

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