[Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

[Scott Aron Bloom]

> To: BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia 14.08.2012, 
> 18:50, "BRM" <bm_witness at yahoo.com>:
>>  most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial 
>> license
> because of the ambiguity
>>  with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that while Nokia did

>> do
> that, they have not provided any
>>  clarity to its use.
> 
> ... while developers of proprietary software, which are not commercial

> licensees, use LGPL license :)
> 

Some may yes, but I think the general ambiguity left by the LGPL
requirements still pushes most towards commercial licenses.
So I don't think it has really changed anything in terms of business.

I could be wrong - only someone familiar with the various deals within
Nokia/Digia could really answer that, but that won't likely happen.

Ben

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I disagree.. In my experience, creating the LGPL version swept in a HUGE
uptick in commercial applications using it...  The only reason I know of
that smaller companies bought the commercial license was for support.

And if they were my clients, and I gave them the support, there was no
need.

Scott