[Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

[Knoll Lars]

On 22/08/14 11:32, "Jake Petroules" <jake.petroules at petroules.com> wrote:
>
>What makes the iOS App Store different from the others?

Microsoft has added explicit exception clauses for FOSS software in their
terms. To quote 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh694058.aspx):

"Your license terms must also not conflict with the Standard Application
License Terms, in any way, except if you include FOSS, your license terms
may conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of the Standard
Application License Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS
that you use."


Google play has this term in section 5.4
(https://play.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/developer-distribution-agreement
.html):

"5.4 You grant to the user a non-exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual
license to perform, display, and use the Product on the Device. If you
choose, you may include a separate end user license agreement (EULA) in
your Product that will govern the user's rights to the Product in lieu of
the previous sentence."


So both are actually rather friendly to open source, as Google gives you
enough flexibility in your licensing terms, and Microsoft explicitly
removes restrictions that would conflict with your usage of open source
software contained in the product.

Apple has restrictions, but no exceptions for open source software.

Cheers,
Lars