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

[Thiago Macieira]

Nick Betcher wrote:
>   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)

You have to remember that the Open Source version of Qt under the GPL also 
came with an exception that allowed applications to link to it without 
showing the source, provided that the application had been developed under 
the proper valid commercial agreement (search for the text of the GPL 
Exception).

So even if these files you have are the Open Source build, it doesn't mean 
foul play. The only way of ascertaining that is to check our customer 
database and see if this particular client had a commercial license. For 
obvious reasons, this database is not public.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
      Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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