[Qt-interest] Determining Licensing Method of Binary Qt Library

[Andrew Medico]

2009/3/24 Nick Betcher <nbetcher at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>    I am interested in definitely determining the license to which a
> particular person or organization would have used to link their application
> to using only the binary-form of the Qt libraries provided with the
> application (e.g. commercial or GPL - this pre-dates LGPL). While I suspect
> foul-play, I do not intend on providing any further details until I can be
> sure of which license was used for Qt in this binary distribution. The DLLs
> I have access to are (non-debug):
>
> QtCore4.dll
> QtGui4.dll
> QtNetwork4.dll
> QtSql4.dll
> QtXml4.dll

You could try running "strings" against the QtCore DLL. On my machine,
GPL binaries contain the lines "qt_lcnsprod=OpenSource" and
"qt_lcnsuser=Open Source".

-- 
Andrew Medico <a.medico at gmail.com>