[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,

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Laurent Carlier
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