[Qt-interest] Qt SDK developer agreement

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

Disclaimer: IANAL, nor do I speak for Nokia. I'm guessing, just like
anyone else...

It is always important to read "Definitions" in licenses...

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"Software" means Nokia Web Tools for Series 40 software (source code
and/or object code as applicable), with the exception of Open Source
Software (as defined below), documentation, sample code, simulators,
tools, libraries, application programming interfaces (APIs), data, files,
and materials hereby provided or made available by Nokia for use by You in
connection with Your Application development, and includes any updates
that may be provided or made available by Nokia.

"Open Source Software" means any software, which is, as included in the
Software, subject to a license terms and conditions currently listed at
http://opensource.org/licenses/ or meeting the criteria listed at
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php or which is subject to any
similar free or open source license terms. Open Source Software contained
in the Software is licensed under the license terms accompanying such Open
Source Software and not the terms of this Agreement.
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So Nokia makes a distinction between "Software" and "Open Source
Software". With the latter being Qt and the other open components and the
former the closed stuff distributed in the SDK.

Note the last sentence that I quoted above: this explicitly excludes the
Open Source components from this closed license.

> This license agreement is quite horrible and certainly not in the spirit
> of open governance or free software. This is written by old school
> lawyers who are clueless of the Qt community.

As most closed source licenses are... ;-)

But you are right: I'd also like to see Nokia take more pages out of
Googles book instead of Apples...

IMHO a license like this belongs in the contract for the Ovi store, not
into the SDK - but then again: IANAL.

If you manage to write your software without using or linking the closed
components of the SDK, then you are free to be as obscene in it as you
like ;-)

(I believe being unlawful is already excluded by, well, the law.)

Unless you are targetting the symbian phone market, there should be no
reason to use this SDK.


    Konrad