[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5 Clarification

[Constantin Makshin]

Qt 4.5.1 about box says Qt is available in 3 licenses -- GPL (for  
open-source software), LGPL (for open- and closed-source software that  
complies with LGPL terms) and their own commercial one (for other cases).

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:39:43 +0400, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 28.04.09 17:29:24, Richard Danter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have just completed an install of Ubuntu 9.04 and was very happy to
>> note that the version of Qt now included is 4.5.0.
>>
>> I built a quick test app which included a help->about option and did not
>> get the expected results. Sure enough it tells me I am using v4.5.0 but
>> it tells me this is the Open Source Edition and all the usual things
>> from previous versions about needing a commercial Qt license for non-OSS
>> application development.
>>
>> Until now I was under the impression 4.5 was lgpl.
>
> LGPL and GPL. But QtSoftware forgot to update the about box text, I'm
> guessing this will be fixed in 4.5.1 (didn't check). However what the
> about box says isn't quite that important, the important parts are in
> the LICENSE* files and the source files.
>
> Andreas

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Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin