> But Qt manages to be DFSG complient, even GPL yet still charges it > commercial customers.
The commercial customers may also use Qt without fee - provided that they release their software under the GPL (which they usually do not). It would be a different matter if Qt's license prohibited *some* explicitly named software vendors from using it without paying some license fees. The problem with ckermit is probably that the said Unix vendors don't have to link anything against it (unlike users of Qt, which is a library) and would therefore have no real reason to buy a proprietary GPL-escape license. - Jarno