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Re: QT/KDE legal stuff



Almost..

Yes, you'll need the commercial QT - but you can write a proprietary KDE 
applications (look at  my 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: <dgi_il@hotmail.com>
> To: <linux-il@linux.org.il>
> 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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