On Tuesday 26 June 2001 03:22 pm, Matthias Posseldt wrote: > Hi all, > > Trolltech's newest announcement could help efforts to port KDE to Windows, > don't it? Since we don't charge anyone, there should be no problem! > > http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/noncommercial.html > > Ciao, Matthias Not exactly no problem, as Matthias Ettrich pointed out on LT today. There are issues with the GPL. Ironically these issues might also affect you if you were using the commerical license as well. See the GNU GPL section of the above link. ------(copied from web page) Qt non-commercial edition and the GNU GPL The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a popular free software license widely used in the Unix/Linux world. The GPL is published by the Free Software Foundation (see http://www.fsf.org). One of the key features of the license is that it does not permit the distribution of software linked to non-system libraries that are distributed under different licensing terms. Although Qt non-commercial edition is available free of charge this prohibition nonetheless applies to it. If you wish to port one of the many GPL'd Qt-based Unix applications to another operating system using the Qt non-commercial edition, you need to get that application's copyright holders to add an exception to its license. Similarly, if you develop a new application with the Qt non-commercial edition and wish to license it under the GPL you may wish to add such an exception to your license. The Free Software Foundation has provided the following wording for such exceptions: As a special exception, gives permission to link this program with Qt non-commercial edition, and distribute the resulting executable, without including the source code for the Qt non-commercial edition in the source distribution. Note that such an exception is not required for code released under other free software licenses like the GNU LGPL and BSD-style licenses. ------(end copied from web page) So it is sort of a funny issue huh? Anyone want to catalogue license exceptions? -- Eric Laffoon sequitur@kde.org A member of the Quanta+ Web development team http://quanta.sourceforge.net >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<