[Qt-interest] Licensing

[Mandeep Sandhu]

> It looks like you're not allowed to write code with the LGPL version
> and then switch to the commercial Qt at a later time:
>
> From http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing :
>
> You must purchase a Qt Commercial Developer License from us or from one
> of our authorized resellers before you start developing commercial
> software. The Qt  Commercial Developer License  does not allow the
> incorporation of code developed with the Qt GNU LGPL v. 2.1 or GNU GPL
> v. 3.0 license versions into a commercial product.

I think this really applies to application code that's already been
released with the QT LGPL version. Otherwise there's no way for Nokia
to find out whether some code started out being written with QT-LGLP
and then later switched to the commercial version.

Regards,
-mandeep

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> Bruce Cran
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