[Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

[chuck.piercey at nokia.com]

Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on the commercial business but it also grew the number of users by an order of magnitude over the same time period. 

Chuck Piercey
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cpiercey

-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext Scott Aron Bloom
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:19 AM
To: BRM; interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

> 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
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