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From: Alexander Terekhov
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:51
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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