[Gambas-user] Beginner questions

[Rob]

On Monday 08 March 2004 15:18, Laurent Godard wrote:
> i saw that there were a projetc on doing rpms
> would this avoid installing gambas ?

No, the RPM's I generate include gambas as a Requires:, meaning 
urpmi (under mandrake) or apt/yum (under redhat) will 
automatically install the needed parts of gambas when you 
install an RPM generated by my patch.

In the future I hope there will be a way to build Gambas and its 
libraries statically into one big app, but considering that the 
necessary parts of Gambas are far smaller than the vbrun*.dll 
you need for VB apps, I think that would be more useful for 
embedded platforms than normal desktop systems.

> No QT is IIRC as expensibve as ms tools under windows
> I thought , probably wrong, that the QT using as free only
> implied to release sources as GPL. Am I wrong ?

That's right, they won't let you apply the commercial license to 
any code developed under Qt/Free even if you've paid for a 
commercial license.  They do this to prevent commercial shops 
from buying one license and having all their other developers 
use Qt/Free on non-GPL software.

You can also license your Qt projects under the QPL, which is 
more restrictive than the GPL, but that is GPL-incompatible so 
you couldn't use QPL'ed libraries with GPL'ed Gambas without a 
specific exemption in Gambas' copy of the GPL.

I am not a lawyer, but I've spent lots of time looking at these 
issues since my current business involves writing a lot of GPL 
but commercial software ;)

Rob