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From QextSerialPort 1.2-beta on, we use MIT license for QextSerialPort project. |
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== License == |
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Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Wayne Roth |
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Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Stefan Sander |
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Copyright (c) 2007 Michal Policht |
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Copyright (c) 2008 Brandon Fosdick |
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Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Liam Staskawicz |
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Copyright (c) 2011 Debao Zhang |
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Web: http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/ |
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining |
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the |
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including |
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, |
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to |
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to |
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the following conditions: |
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be |
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. |
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, |
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF |
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND |
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NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE |
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LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION |
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OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION |
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WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. |
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== Why license needed? == |
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Many users complains that, without a proper licence they can not use this library. |
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* http://groups.google.com/group/qextserialport/browse_thread/thread/0e8756920b01da82 |
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Hi, |
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we are considering using a modified version of QExtSerialPort in one of our |
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projects (Qt Creator, http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator). |
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Would it be possible to add license header information or a license file to the |
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QExtSerialPort code base? - This would make re-use of the code base easier. |
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If that is not possible, could we redistribute the source code with BSD- |
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license headers manually added? |
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And |
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I am also considering packaging the software for Debian, but I |
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couldn't do it yet just because of the license. |
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* http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/issues/detail?id=8 |
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Questions: |
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Can I use qextserialport in a commercial product? |
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If yes, how? |
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Compile it in? I guess no. |
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If I can use it as a library, how should the README be formulated? |
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Is the "MIT license" from 2008 appropriate? |
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== Why can we use MIT? == |
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Form the history of [http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2004-12/msg01022.html qt-interest mail list] |
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* Wayne Roth, the original author of the project, had said that: |
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the code is in the public domain. Do whatever you like with it. Right |
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now I have too many other things to do to put any serious time into |
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fixing it. Trolltech should be aware of this already; they asked |
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about a license when they offered to host the tarball. |
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* Stefan Sander, the maintainer of qextserialport on sourceforge, said that |
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Hello, |
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My project registration at !SourceForge have been approved. |
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http://www.sf.net/projects/qextserialport |
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I thought an initial licence of Public Domain would be best solution. |
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Someone wrote: - Because its public domain, some could fork it under different licenses - |
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And from [http://groups.google.com/group/qextserialport/browse_thread/thread/fbcddbfb4a0b5a51?pli=1 this thread] on qesp mail list, we can see that, current maintainers and users agree with a MIT licence. |
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* Brandon Fosdick, |
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I would vote for BSD or MIT :) |
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* Liam Staskawicz, |
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That works for me - let's call it MIT and go for it :) |
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And from [[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/qextserialport/P_5TrNHBICE this other thread]] on the same mailing list: |
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* Michal Policht, |
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I agree to license.
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