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:Trolltech's Qt to be Licensed Under the GPL v3
Trolltech's Qt to be Licensed Under the GPL v3
Jan 21, 2008, 01 :00 UTC (21 Talkback[s]) (5604 reads)

[ Thanks to Bernard Swiss for this link. ]

"Trolltech ASA is licensing its Qt cross-platform development framework under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), with immediate effect.

"Qt is already available under the GPL v2 and will continue to be so in addition to the GPL v3.

"The GPL v3 license will make it easy and safe for free software developers to use Trolltech’s Qt with the most recent license framework from the Free Software Foundation. Trolltech hopes that its move will inspire free software projects to use GPL v3 when programming with Qt..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Trolltech is doing the right thing, and  ...   Nice   
GH
Jan 21, 2008, 03:52:03
 
 QT continues to be dual-licenced. So th ...   Nothing new   
Shamar
Jan 21, 2008, 08:03:10
 
Would you please care to explain what ex ...   Re: Nothing new   
kelaklub
Jan 21, 2008, 16:33:03
 
Trolltech gives you more then any other  ...   Re: Nothing new   
David
Jan 21, 2008, 18:27:41
 
(even the Mac/Window GUI libraries are r ...   Re: Nothing new   
Segedunum
Jan 21, 2008, 20:02:36
 
it's a little bit more than that, to ...   Re: Nothing new   
d
Jan 22, 2008, 00:37:52
 
> ...you have to email them a price requ ...   Re: Re: Nothing new   
Tony OBryan
Jan 22, 2008, 02:49:59
 
> QT continues to be dual-licenced. So t ...   Re: Nothing new   
Onan the Barbarian
Jan 22, 2008, 10:59:42
 
 I don't see the "problem". "Whateve ...   Re: Re: Nothing new   
GreyGeek
Jan 22, 2008, 13:36:54
 
TrollTech's licensing terms force a  ...   The issue is simple   
blah
Jan 22, 2008, 14:16:22
 
> Have you tried?  I find this claim to  ...   Re: Re: Re: Nothing new   
d
Jan 22, 2008, 14:26:45
 
here's an interesting link i've  ...   new pricing info (from KDE.ORG)   
d
Jan 22, 2008, 16:08:45
 
I think your point is that Qt cost to mu ...   cost not license   
David
Jan 22, 2008, 16:33:40
 
> at a significant discount... right...  ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Nothing new   
Tony OBryan
Jan 22, 2008, 17:47:42
 
 ...Here is an example of such a project ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Nothing new   
GreyGeek
Jan 22, 2008, 19:11:27
 
We all know that QT is a very well desig ...   QT Official Answer (650 area code transcript)   
Daniel
Jan 23, 2008, 01:15:29
 
Hi GreyGeek,Yes, the product is not bad  ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nothing new   
Daniel
Jan 23, 2008, 01:21:43
 
http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/newlicen. ...   try this one for a change...   
d
Jan 23, 2008, 02:49:19
 
[Trolltech answer snipped]If Trolltech d ...   Re: QT Official Answer (650 area code transcript)   
Tony OBryan
Jan 23, 2008, 13:15:03
 
unless your "customers" are under gpl, w ...   Re: Re: QT Official Answer (650 area code transcri   
d
Jan 23, 2008, 14:31:40
 
 unless your "customers" are under gpl,  ...   Re: Re: Re: QT Official Answer (650 area code tran   
GreyGeek
Jan 23, 2008, 19:02:38
 
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