and I always thought KDE libs are GNU licenced..
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
| Almost..
|
| Yes, you'll need the commercial QT - but you can write a proprietary KDE
| applications (look atmy previous email) as long as you don't modify or
| touch the KDE sources themselves...
|
| Hetz
|
|
| On Wednesday 28 February 2001 22:45, Oded Arbel wrote:
| > 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
| >
| > --
| > SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
| >-- Ken Thompson
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > 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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