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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: general question about commercial KDE apps
From:       Kevin Forge <forgeltd () pop ! netaddress ! usa ! net>
Date:       1998-03-08 20:01:17
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At 10:42 PM 3/1/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>ok, i noticed quite a while back that a lot of KDE is GPL'd and i know Qt is
>a commercial library,
>if i were to purchase the Qt commercial license can i legally make a
>coomerical product for KDE and not release the source?  what should i be
>looking at?  is this at all possible?
>
This is perfectly OK and is in fact the main reason Troll decided to let
GPLd stuff like KDE use the libs for free.  If you for instance wrote a but 
kicking Perfect Office 8 clone for KDE and decided to drop it for $ 80 a
pop you could do some serious business ... Just remember to leave a hole 
open for other people to write filters ... Microsoft can produce new 
formats for *.doc faster than Bill C can change girlfriends.
This commercial product could be sold in any way you like and could ( If I
recall the GNU GPL correctly ), include a full distro of KDE ( with sources )
and eaven Linux.  This is how AplixWare is sold.
>

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