[Qt-creator] Licensing of plugins

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Mon Nov 11 23:48:44 CET 2013


Hi,

What license is recommended for an open source plugin for Qt Creator?

Is it necessary to include the same licensing information as it is
in the plugins included in the Qt Creator source tree? It is:

"""
Commercial License Usage
Licensees...

GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
Alternatively, ...
"""

I'm reading the contribution guide [1] and I'm not completely clear
about what exactly are "the licensing terms" in this statement:

"you can always write and distribute your own plug-ins separately,
provided you follow the licensing terms"

IANAL, and, neither I have experience with Qt commercial licensing
nor I have interest in learning it in very details.

What is the least restrictive, but sensible, license possible for a Qt
Creator plugin?

Most of open source code I write is released under Boost Software License
and I'm completely ignorant about how BSL interacts with (L)GPL.
I don't know (L)GPL well, I admit.

I'd be thankful for any recommendation.

[1] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_Creator_Plug-in_Contribution_Guide

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net



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