[LAU] licensing fun, was Re: Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano

[Arnold Krille]

Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 schrieb Randy Kramer:
> You are right in that Qt wasn't free enough (in the opinion of, for
> example, Richard Stallman, and I agreed (FWIW ;-)), but dual licensing
> was not the issue at that time.
> > I can't recall the issue exactly, but, in fact, dual licensing was a 
> solution to the issue--Qt was not free at the time, by adopting the GPL
> (and dual licensing to protect their commercial interests)

No, it was always dual-licensed: commercial and QPL. And the QPL was later 
changed to GPL. Which itself afaik was only possible because all payed devs 
intellectual property was in trolltechs hands...

Have fun,

Arnold
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