OT [Cialug] Time for Suse funeral?

[Kendall Bailey]

FWIH, the license fee comes in at development time.  Each developer
needs a license.  Distribution of proprietary software which uses QT
is royalty-free, but right up front you need to buy developer licenses
before any code is written.  I have no idea whether there's a way to
start out on the GPL version of Qt and then later turn a project into
a closed source product.  I'd guess Trolltech would accomodate that
somehow, but it's not the route they encourage...

Kendall


On 11/7/05, David Champion <dave at visionary.com> wrote:
> The Qt library that KDE uses has a dual-license, like MySQL and other
> stuff...
>
> http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/licenses/LICENSE
> http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licensing.html
>
> As I understand these (IANAL) they're fully free for OSS projects, but
> you need to license them if you're going to distribute it as a
> commercial project.
>
> -dc
>
> Kendall Bailey wrote:
> > I believe Gnome is LGPL.  I've seen the argument several times that
> > Gnome is more 'friendly' to business since it's possible to write
> > proprietary apps without paying a developer license as you would for
> > Qt if you write to KDE.
> >
> > Kendall
> >
> > On 11/7/05, Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Both are (I believe) GPL.
> >>
> >>When I said there was no choice, I was referring to business reasons.
> >>Novell already has several developers familiar with the Gnome world,
> >>and they only had one KDE developer.  If they had to focus on a desktop,
> >>the choice was pretty obvious.
> >
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