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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GPL and QPL licenses?
From:       Steven Hatfield <ashari () knightswood ! net>
Date:       2002-07-25 18:38:02
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Kuba Ober wrote:
>>>PS: I dont want to earn money with that (for now)!! I know, If I want
>>>to sell linux programs made by me using Qt I need to buy the comercial
>>>versions of Qt and KDE, insīt it?
>>
>>Yes, that's correct.
> 
> 
> Not quite.
> 
> 1. You can sell GPL-licensed software, and then you don't need to buy 
> commercial licence. You can do whatever you want with GPL software as long as 
> the license is maintained -- it doesn't place any restrictions on whether 
> you're paid to do that or not.
> 
> 2. You can only buy commercial license of Qt, there's no way I know of to do 
> that with KDE. You can use KDE libs in your closed-source products, of 
> course, because they are LGPL licensed, as opposed to GPL. For Qt, you need 
> commercial license.
> 
> Cheers, Kuba Ober
>  
> 
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Yes, you are absolutely correct... good catch!

 
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