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Re: QT/KDE legal stuff



On Thu, Mar 01, 2001, Oded Arbel wrote about "Re: QT/KDE legal stuff":
> 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

But then the person who buys your software and gets the source is also
allowed to sell (or give away) copies of the source himself! I'm sure
that's not what he wanted...

> SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
>  -- Ken Thompson

I like this :)
But it didn't help - RCS won the battle (maybe CVS will win the war).


"You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave"
	The Eagles, "Hotel California"

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