[Qt-interest] Licensing

[phil prentice]

Hi everyone

  First I would like to say a big thankyou for all your responses.  Um... I 
think on the basis of what you have all said that for now my safest option is 
to keep going with my licensed version of QT.  It is at the moment capable of 
doing all that I need.  In time I will contact GNU or Nokia to try and 
clarify what I can or cannot do, but for the moment I will run with my 
licensed version.  Any response I receive I will post on the list.  
  Again a big thankyou for everyones input.

Phil


> Hi 
>   I have a basic question to do with licensing.  I purchased a commercial Qt 
> license for Qt 4.2.1. Unfortunately I could not continue the license fee due 
> to financial restraints and so Qt 4.2.1 is the version we have been using 
for 
> our product since then.  For now we could continue to do this, but I am 
> probably missing out on all the new features available in more up to date 
> versions of Qt.

>   Licensing as ever always seems to be overly complicated...to put into 
> nutshell I dont always understand it and I will always try and play safe.
> The question is:-

> the company I work for do not want there sources to be made available(closed 
> sources).  I link some of these sources into applications that use Qt.  Am I 
> still forced to continue using my licensed version or could I consider using 
> a more up to date version with the LGPL license.

> I'm sure the answer is not going to be straight forward...but just in 
case???

> It would just be nice to learn and use some of the newer features of Qt.

> Thanks for your help