This is just plain untrue.
You can make a KDE compliant application and sell it, without any problem,
as long as you also distribute the source (and not necesarily for free -
it's legal to make the source available only to the people who purchased
your software). AFAIK if you don't want to distribute the sources with the
software, then you need to buy a commercial QT license, but that is all.
Oded
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-- Ken Thompson
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Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:05
Subject: QT/KDE legal stuff
> I started writing a commercial program, and I wanted to do a *nix version
> also. So naturally I started QT Designer and started drawing the app
dialogs
> and then I understood that I cannot really make it KDE... since KDE will
> force me to publish the sources of that program. As a definition my
program
> is free, but the services it uses are free. Can I use QT for my toolkit?
> (the free version I mean).
>
> Let's say I will pay for a commercial license of QT toolkit. That means
that
> KDE software is banned from the commercial market. Unless you compile KDE
> with the commercial license of QT.
>
> - diego
>
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