Re: Qt license change
luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr writes:
> but there is still the problem on commercial software production
> with Qt, you have to buy Qt commercial to produce commercial Qt
> products. I am not entirely sure but they were comments saying that
> this is not FDSG compliant. and i seem to remember there is some
> limitation on this, something about fee you can charge, or other
> such.
Under the DFSG guidelines, restricting proprietary use is OK. Don't
confuse that with licenses tha restrict commercial use - they aren't
allowed. Remember, we allow the GPL, which can't be used for
proprietary apps either.
The DFSG guidelines are a good compromise oriented towards people that
want to write DFSG-free software. It isn't a good compromise for
people who want to write proprietary applications. The *BSD projects
have licensing guidelines that are more in-tune with people who wish
to write proprietary stuff (ie. they like BSD-style copyrights, not
the GPL).
Cheers,
- Jim
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