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 -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...
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