[Bf-committers] GPL or (c) infringement?

[joeedh]

Chris McFarlen wrote:

>>>A 2D CAD package (that I'd like to find, so I know where to D/L it).
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>>Looks like QCad: http://www.qcad.org/
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>It is QCad.  Since QCad is a Qt program, and there is not currently a GPL 
>license for Qt on Windows, I wonder who bought the Qt license to distribute 
>this for Windows?
>
>Also, on the QCad page, there is this blurb:
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>Luxuriousity is a Community distributor. You will have full licensed rights to 
>use LUXURIOUSITYCAD.
> The software is GPL/Open Source and is copyright by Andrew Mustun, 
>RibbonSoft.
> In addition to receiving the fully installable version of this package, you 
>are also given the rights to the complete
> source code and the right to modify the program and re-compile a new version 
>your own specifications!
> Try asking AutoDesk ® for that with their AutoCAD ® program!
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>How can it be GPL, *AND* use Qt on Windows?  I wonder if Trolltech knows about 
>these guys.
>
>The CD cover for the CAD program is some *real* high quality work, just some 
>random guy in a suit holding his fist in the air.
>
>http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/57/56902/cadlogo.jpg
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Can we modify Blender's BPL license to require people to post, oh, I 
don't know, the NAME?  And maybe a link to blender3d.org, too. . .

It would still be GPL-compatible, wouldn't it?   Or would it?

joeedh