[GRASS-dev] v.digit: Qt or wxWidgets

[Radim Blazek]

On 5/22/06, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Radim Blazek wrote:
>
> > What do you mean exactly. It is GPL on all platforms.
> >
> > > There are
> > > subtle but maybe relevant differences in the licensing scheme and it
> > > seems that there is always a difference between the open source and the
> > > commercial versions. But I think Radim is more qualified to judge this.
> >
> > I cannot say if there are differences, but I don't believe.
> > We are using GPL version on all platforms.
> > There are some additional packages (QSA, Qt Solutions, Teambuilder)
> > which are not available under GPL on all platforms but the Qt, Qtopia
> > and Qtopia SDK will be most probably the same on all platforms
> > and under all licenses.
> >
> > http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/matrix
> >
> > I don't care which toolkit you choose. I just don't like to see
> > that some people for some strange reasons repeat to say that
> > Qt is not free, which is not true.
>
> The licensing information on the TrollTech site suggests that the
> licence for the Open Source edition isn't actually the GPL, but a
> requirement that you publish your code under the terms of the GPL.
>
> The GPL itself does not require that you publish your code at all. You
> are free to create derivative works and not publish them at all. /If/
> you publish them, you must do so under the terms of the GPL.
>
> TrollTech's site suggests that you cannot develop "in-house"
> applications using the Qt Open Source edition (and you can't obtain a
> commercial licence for software which was originally developed using
> the Open Source edition). In which case, the licence isn't even
> GPL-compatible.

I cannot find anything like that. The opensource package is licenced under
GPL and I don't see any exception. Where is written that you
must publish your code even if you do not distribute the application
or that you cannot develop and use "in-house" application using open source
edition of Qt?

Radim

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> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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