On Thursday 18 September 2008 12:26:01 Randy Kramer wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 11:27 am, drew Roberts wrote: > > So, are there any Free programs built around QT that are not GPL? > > I can't answer that definatively. I know KDE is (being?) ported to > Windows, but I guess they manage to do that as free software (i.e., > under the GPL license of Qt). It seems to me I've heard of some > commercial programs using (or planning to use) Qt, but I can't recite > any names. > > > To do this > > legally, one would have to purchase a commercial license right? And > > then all > > > contributors would also need commercial licenses right? The mind > > boggles. > > Yup, and, iirc, the original terms of Qt's dual license required that > you make a decision up front--if you were going to develop a commercial > application under the commercial (not GPL) license, you had to decide > when you started developing your application, and from that point, pay > for Qt. (If that was not for Qt, it was for some other dual licensed > library.) Yup, up front. I have always felt that was a bit onerous and perhaps extremely hard to enforce, but that is what they require. > > Randy Kramer all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
