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Re: Circumventing the GPL ...

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From: Alexander Terekhov
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:51
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Nick Kew wrote:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/30/nokia_goes_open_source/
> 
> Nokia is to open its browser engine under a BSD license.
> 
> The browser engine is developed with apple and based on Safari.
> Which is in turn based on khtml/konqueror.  Which is KDE,
> which is GPL.  So that's a derivative of GPL software appearing
> under a BSD license, or so it would appear.
> 
> Now, presumably Apple negotiated non-GPL terms with the KDE folks
> for their use of the code in Safari.  Did those terms include
> permission to open-source a derived product under non-GPL terms?
> If so, it would appear to have effectively killed copyleft on
> this particular software.

<chuckles> 

Read up something on the AFC test. And kindly piss off with your 
GNUish/SCOish "based on" derivative theories in the meantime.

regards,
alexander.
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