[Gambas-user] LICENSE FEE
Laurent Carlier
lordheavy at ...512...
Sat Jul 23 19:21:26 CEST 2005
Rob a écrit :
>
> Okay, did you go to the Trolltech licensing FAQ that I linked to? It
> wasn't about the author changing his license, it's that Trolltech is
> not willing to sell you a proprietary license for any code you've
> ever developed using the Free Edition. Trolltech would be the one
> taking issue with him, not the other authors. To quote Trolltech
> more fully,
>
> "Can we use the Open Source Edition while developing our non-free
> application and then purchase commercial licenses when we start to
> sell it?
>
> No: our commercial license agreements only apply to software that was
> developed with Qt under the agreement. They do not apply to code that
> was developed with the Qt Open Source Edition prior to the agreement.
> Any software developed with Qt without a commercial license agreement
> must be released as free/open source software."
>
> This is according to the Trolltech Qt FAQ,
> http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/faq.html#4-3 .
>
> Rob
So because the "commercial license" (sigh) doesn't allow this, not the
GPL one. (GPL doesn't allow linking to non-free, a commercial license is
necessary).
Such forbid is prohibit ? Any lawyer here ? :)
Regards,
--
Laurent Carlier
jabber : LordHeavy at ...943...
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