18 Sep
2008
18 Sep
'08
12:50 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:29:38PM +0100, James Stone wrote:
What I don't quite understand is that Qt has a
free/commercial
separate licensing, but no-one has the same kind of problem with qt
that they have with LS? Would someone care to explain?
Well, the Qt toolkit is dual licensed. If you choose to use the GPL
version, it is completely GPL and no exceptions are attached.
Notice that it is not LGPL, it is GPL only, So if you want to develop
a proprietary application with Qt, you'll need to get the proprietary
license from Qt. I have absolutely no problem with this scheme, the GPL
version is as free (or as restrictive, depending on your point of view)
as the other GPL libraries that are normally installed in a GNU/Linux
distribution.