2006/5/22, Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Radim Blazek wrote:<br><br>> What do you mean exactly. It is GPL on all platforms.<br>><br>> > There are<br>> > subtle but maybe relevant differences in the licensing scheme and it<br>> > seems that there is always a difference between the open source and the
<br>> > commercial versions. But I think Radim is more qualified to judge this.<br>><br>> I cannot say if there are differences, but I don't believe.<br>> We are using GPL version on all platforms.<br>> There are some additional packages (QSA, Qt Solutions, Teambuilder)
<br>> which are not available under GPL on all platforms but the Qt, Qtopia<br>> and Qtopia SDK will be most probably the same on all platforms<br>> and under all licenses.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/matrix">
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/matrix</a><br>><br>> I don't care which toolkit you choose. I just don't like to see<br>> that some people for some strange reasons repeat to say that<br>> Qt is not free, which is not true.
<br><br>The licensing information on the TrollTech site suggests that the<br>licence for the Open Source edition isn't actually the GPL, but a<br>requirement that you publish your code under the terms of the GPL.<br><br>The GPL itself does not require that you publish your code at all. You
<br>are free to create derivative works and not publish them at all. /If/<br>you publish them, you must do so under the terms of the GPL.<br><br>TrollTech's site suggests that you cannot develop "in-house"<br>applications using the Qt Open Source edition (and you can't obtain a
<br>commercial licence for software which was originally developed using<br>the Open Source edition). In which case, the licence isn't even<br>GPL-compatible.<br><br>--<br>Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com">
glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grass-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grass-dev@grass.itc.it">grass-dev@grass.itc.it</a><br><a href="http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev">
http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev</a></blockquote><div><br>From Trolltech's website :<br><br></div>"Trolltech's dual license policy provides versions of Qt under the terms of the <span class="link-external">
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" target="_new">GNU General Public License (GPL)</a></span>."</div><br>I don't think there are lincensing problems with Qt.<br>