[Qt-creator] Cost?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:16:40PM -0600, Jerry L Kreps wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 02:23:35 Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:12:09AM -0600, GreyGeek wrote:
> > > QtCreator is not GPL.
> > > Will it be free, or are we working for free debugging a future
> > > proprietary application?
> >
> > What makes you think so?
> 
> Because when I install a snapshot it presents a "Beta License
> Ageeement version 2.2".  The text of the license says that Nokia owns
> the intellectual and source code rights to all contributions submitted
> by testors, and that the license is "Time-limited", the user may not
> modify the application nor give it away.

Good Old Trolltech's "Beta License" is indeed one of the licenses under
which you can use Qt Creator. Using that license it makes still a lot of
sense on the distributor's side to discourage the widespread use of
outdated binary preview packages.

> Finally, no where in the click-through license is the GPL mentioned.

It does not have to. The GPL covers distribution of software, it is
nothing that has to be "accepted" for just using the software. 

All Qt Creator source files all bear a comment

  "[...] Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
  General Public License versions 2.0 or 3.0 as published by the Free
  Software Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in
  the packaging of this file [...]"

so whatever entity "we" refers to is not "debugging a future proprietary
application" ;-)

Regards,
Andre'