Posted by zxq9 on Aug 07, 2011; 9:05pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/The-legal-situation-tp4673951p4675779.html

This is where I get it from:


[ceverett@jalapeno LibreCAD]$ head -n 12 LibreCAD/src/main/main.cpp
/****************************************************************************
**
** This file is part of the LibreCAD project, a 2D CAD program
**
** Copyright (C) 2010 R. van Twisk (librecad@rvt.dds.nl)
** Copyright (C) 2001-2003 RibbonSoft. All rights reserved.
**
**
** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
** it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
** the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
** (at your option) any later version.


And... checking the QCad code does not show that. So now we're left with a sort of ambiguous situation. An abandonned project (QCad) being picked up by a new community which made significant changes and re-reeleased as GPLv2+. Interesting.

So this is more complex than I thought. I need to get in touch with the legal guys at Red Hat and let you know what they have to say.