On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Justin Mason wrote:
) John P . Looney said:
)
) > I think Caolan said at one stage that koffice or some part of it use his
) > WV library...oh wait..that was abiword...
)
) Yeah, I remember that -- and I think they butchered it to fit it in too,
) if I recall correctly ;) However at least that's GPLed reuse of GPLed
) code.
No, it *was* a problem, as it was linking wv againt the QPL indirectly,
which is the sort of violation in question. Under what RMS is saying,
Caolan would have to issue a similar sorrt of forgiveness statement (if he
thought it necessary)
)
) --j.
Jimmy
)
)
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