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As a British person who voted Lib Dem, I'd need a lot more than a "promise" to quell my worries.
by antihero 14y ago
As a British person who voted Lib Dem, I'd need a lot more than a "promise" to quell my worries.
- jiggy2011 14y agoIf it was part of the license agreement? I don't know how enforceable this would be in practice though. Perhaps a neutral third party gets code access and a contract with the developer and users as to when/if it will be released?
- streptomycin 14y agoIt can just be a simple contract, like this http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
- ehamberg 14y agoPerhaps something à la the KDE Free Qt Foundation? (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...) The agreement between the Free Qt Foundation and Nokia gives them right to release the latest Qt version under a BSD-style licence if Nokia stop releasing Qt versions (GPL+LGPL).