[Qt-interest] Licensing

[alexander golks]

this nice gpl,lgpl and commercial discussions...
i repeat a statement already mentioned in this thread:
don't trust anyone telling you something about how to behave concerning law. 
just trust your paid lawyer.

> I thought that in this context, "commercial" means that you can keep
> your code closed-source.
> 
> Additionally, I've been told by someone on IRC a few months ago that
> developers must download the commercial Qt sources if they want to do
> commercial development, even though they already have a valid and paid
> commercial license with Trolltech. Surely it shouldn't matter which
> source archive you download as long as you've paid for a currently
> valid license?  

but, to give it a try:
in my opinion you can do commercial development without using the commercial qt
license. the qt lgpl license should last, AS LONG AS you link dynamically to all
lgpl code.
thow you must handle the lgpl code part correct (e.g. give the end user free 
access to the lpgl part of your code, etc.).

afaik, for germany this whole lgpl and dynamic binding thing is still somehow 
floating. means, you still can get problems...

alex
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