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    According to Joe Pranevich:
    > Open == GPL. End of story.

    That's not quite true. Consider, for example, Larry Wall's "Artistic
    License", used for Perl. That's entirely open. In fact, it's more
    open than the GPL -- but that openness is a kind that those who believe
    in the GPL generally don't like (open to use w/o license infection).

    > Troll could change the license on a dime and leave all you KDE
    > lovers out there with the option to either change Window Maganers or
    > pay them money.

    That's not true at all. Each version of Qt, when it is released with
    a given license, is usable according to the terms of that license in
    perpetuity. Future versions may be more restricted (and no, I don't
    expect that, either), but that doesn't change the fact that (e.g.) Qt
    1.32 will always be usable for free software development.

    > Under the GPL the amount of open ("free") code in the world can only
    > increase, that's the beauty of it.

    That's _a_ beauty. But I think once we leave the details of what is
    allowed and start talking about what is good, we should probably
    adjourn to gnu.misc.discuss.
    --
    Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com>
    "Nice shooting, Zanthar!" "Thanks, Denise." // MST3K

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