[Qt-interest] 4.5 sdk license question

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Apr 27 12:57:52 CEST 2009


On 27.04.09 04:33:49, Victor lyamtsev wrote:
> Qt SDK on http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads is provided as "LGPL /Free",
> The license file, however, mentions GPL v.3, prohibiting use in any
> commercial product.
> The licensing page http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/licensing
> mentions both GPL v.3 and LGPL v. 2.1.

IIRC Qt Software forgot to update the license file, so LGPL should be
correct for Qt and Qt Creator (which is the complete content of the
sdk).

> Also, seems as KDevelop permits distribution of Qt under LGPL, are
> they different from ones developed by Trolltech ?

I don't understand what you mean with that. KDevelop cannot permit or
deny any kind of distribution of Qt that Qt itself doesn't allow.

Andreas

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