Re: Qt becomes Free Software

[James Smith <j-smith physics tamu edu>]

Andy Tai wrote:
> 
> This may be of interest.   Troll Tech just announced that the next version of
> Qt will become free software, under a "QPL" license.

Unfortunately, it's equivalent to the GPL (in general), not the LGPL. 
Maybe I don't understand how Qt works, but I assume users can have
dynamic linking with their libraries.  If you read section 6 of their
license, you see that any program linking with Qt must be open sourced. 
There goes any commercial support, which IMHO would be nice.

Section 5 says we can run the non-open source programs, we just can't
develope them.  This is more restrictive than any GPL or LGPL.

> The license is at
> 
> http://www.troll.no/qpl/
> 
> --
> Li-Cheng Tai (Andy Tai)                       e-mail: atai@ece.ucsd.edu
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