[Development] state of Qt's Australia office
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Aug 2 14:52:17 CEST 2012
On quinta-feira, 2 de agosto de 2012 15.23.06, a.grandi at gmail.com wrote:
> On 2 August 2012 15:15, Dmytro Poplavskiy <dmytro.poplavskiy at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > It's possible to use LGPL Qt in the commercial products,
> > it's only necessary to open changes done to the Qt itself if any.
>
> I will try to be more specific with my question :)
>
> What kind of license is using RIM for their Cascades UI? It's based on
> Qt/QML, but as fra as I know they are submitting patches upstream
> (please correct me if I'm wrong).
LGPL.
> What kind of license is using Jolla, for example?
LGPL.
> What I'm trying to understand is if there are any possible
> restrictions or problems using Qt for a mobile products both if Nokia
> is keeping Qt alive, or if they just abandon it or if they sell it or
> whatever....
No, there aren't. Not from Qt's perspective, anyway.
There's only a problem if the user / customer does not accept code under the
LGPL. There are many companies that are like that, including entire industry
sectors.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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