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Re: contrib/non-free policy

From: Shaya Potter <spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
> Bruce, I was going through some old mail, and I came across this.  You
> say, Qt is only free for X, yes that's true.  However, that's also all
> they release the source code for.  So how could it be "free" for anything
> else.

If someone ported the source code to another window system.

> If Microsoft GPL'd the code for Internet Explorer for Linux, would
> we not be able to include it because the Windows Version is not-free, at
> least from a source code view.

No, if they GPL'ed the source we'd be able to port the source to anything
we wanted to. I don't really care that the Qt folks don't give us the
windows implementation, I do care that they would restrict us from creating
an OpenStep implementation.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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