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Author: der.hans
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: GPL Problems
Am 30. Sep, 2004 schwätzte Nathan England so:

> One of the next things we want to do is develop some front ends. QT is our
> preffered method. Obviously we have to purchase a QT license, now I haven't
> researched it, so I'll start by asking this here.


Research it.

I believe you can devel using the GPL. Not sure about m$ platform.
Trolltech's site explain the situation.

> Do we need to purchase the license as a company to develop the code and sell
> it, or do we need to purchase a license to develop and a license for every
> copy sold? That would drastically raise the cost of our product.


I presume licensing can't be too horrific. If it were they'd have no
customers.

> I don't care for GTK+ much, so I would much rather go QT. Plus, a lot of our
> stuff would preferably run in KDE, so it's better integration, and since most
> KDE libraries are LGPL we are safe with them.


I'll leave the debate as to which is the better toolkit to the devel list
;-).

> I really shouldn't have used the term 'viral'. I apologize for that. I
> sincerely just meant to describe the way that binaries linked against GPL
> must also be GPL. It's my ignorance and I'm sorry. Please no offense.


No offense, just setting the record to slightly less ajar :).

ciao,

der.hans
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