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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2005-02-11 22:11:25
Message-ID: 420D2D8D.9090903 () iidea ! pl
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>>>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
 
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