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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Brokering between developers and paying customers
From:       Manuel Amador <rudd-o () amautacorp ! com>
Date:       2005-06-22 3:42:17
Message-ID: 1119411737.19943.37.camel () master ! amauta
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I wouldn't want this discussion to peter out on licensing issues.  We
should actually leave this decision to the contractor or company that's
publishing a job, letting him choose from a dropdown which kind of
target licensing they want.

And letting the applicant see, in red "This job requires a commercial Qt
license" (hyperlinked to the Buy QT License page, I'm sure the QT devels
would love that, and that's good) if that's the case.

El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 15:57 +0200, Richard Dale escribió:
> On Monday 20 June 2005 14:39, Jan de Visser wrote:
> > On Monday 20 June 2005 08:23, Frederick Emmott wrote:
> > > Would there be any issues RE licensing?
> > >
> > > If some company wants a closed-source KDE app, they have commercial qt
> > > license, does the developer need one too?
> >
> > I would think this is more about in-house applications. If they're not
> > distributed, they can be GPLed.
> A lot of in-house applications don't qualify as GPL'd because you might need 
> to share some code with another company to integrate your two systems. Or if 
> a contractor uses Qt, they are another company which counts as distribution 
> under the terms of the GPL. Many companies wouldn't be happy with the GPL for 
> in-house development for reasons like that.
> 
> > I can't imagine a software company outsourcing the development of a
> > commercial piece of software to some contractor they met over the web.
> Why ever not? If you have a contractor with a web presence, you can read their 
> blogs, look at the code they check in, see how well they support the users of 
> their software, and see them speak at conferences. And of course you can 
> still interview them before awarding their company the work. 
> 
> Do you really mean that getting a bunch of CVs and scanning for keywords like 
> J2EE, Oracle or whatever is a more reliable way to find someone good?
> 
> -- Richard
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