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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by pabs3 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:09PM (#22095684)
This reminded me of the agreement between Qt and KDE, where if Qt is ever made proprietary, KDE can publish Qt under the BSD license:

http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-... https://old.reddit.com/r/QtFramework/comments/e9376a/trouble... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21755337

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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by richardfontana on Monday January 20, 2020 @07:25PM (#22103231)
Indeed that Qt-KDE "treaty" was an inspiration for the feature of copyleft-next that bkuhn lauds in this article.
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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by pgeorgi on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:40AM (#22105028)
Do I understand that feature correctly that, because it's not a limitation on user rights but a pledge by the author, it can be added to any copyleft license without becoming incompatible to the base license or making the result a non-free license?
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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by kemitchell on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:45PM (#22109272)
Any additional reading on the Qt-KDE treaty that you would recommend?
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