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Re: pcp updates: lgpl notices, pmlogconf configs

To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pcp updates: lgpl notices, pmlogconf configs
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:55:53 -0400 (EDT)
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----- Original Message -----
> > > [...]  If anyone from the outside had wanted to reuse a part of
> one of those source files, this change would affect them.  You may
> explain why you believe the change is correct, but nevertheless the
> change is real.

Oh its not simply "my belief" one way or the other - much like with
with the libpcp getdate.y code, we were certainly not doing what we
had stated with library licensing, and the code annotations were
(unintentionally) both incorrect and inappropriate.

There's no point wringing our hands over what someone may have copied
or extracted at some point in the past; we should simply be grateful
to the folk did due diligence and pointed out mistakes so we correct
and clarify going forward.

> is no mere tweak.  (By the way, we haven't included LICENSE.QPL in our
> source tree.)

Please take some time to read up on Qt licensing if you are genuinely
interested; this is a good starting point: http://www.qt.io/licensing/

cheers.

--
Nathan

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