From kde-devel Fri Feb 11 22:11:25 2005 From: Jaroslaw Staniek Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:11:25 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: QT for Windows released under GPL Message-Id: <420D2D8D.9090903 () iidea ! pl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=110815971715610 >>>Has anyone else read the license agreement for Visual C++? It says >>>something along the lines: "You can not use it to develop any word/excel >>>product or products that will be used on other operating systems." I >>>can't seem to find it right now >> >>I'll quote from my license for MS Visual Studio Pro 6.0: >> >>"1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an individual, a >>personal, nonexclusive license to make and use copies of the Software for >>the sole purposes of designing, developing, and testing your software >>product(s) that are designed to operate in conjunction with any Microsoft >>operating system product. > > > Ok, so you can't use VisualC++ for developing linux apps for example. Glad > for the clarification. IANAL, but - false for me. I am not sure if even "You can't use VisualC++ for developing LINUX-ONLY apps." is valid, since looks like there's no _ONLY_ word included in the sentence. For me, 1.1 means that my applications need to _operate_ "in conjunction with any Microsoft operating system product.". And that's ok what I am doing - developing KDE app that compiled and runs natively on MS Windows. AFAIK, the fact that the code is portable to be easily compiled to working Linux or Mac OS X binaries, doesn't break known rules. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska / Kexi Team Developers Wanted! Kexi 0.1 Beta 5 Released: http://www.kexi-project.org KDElibs/Windows: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDElibs+for+win32 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<