Re: Free QT?

[Joshua Spoerri <josh pobox com>]

This has probably been beaten into the ground,
but can someone please tell me quickly:

If LGPL code may be incorporated into commercial software,
but GPL code requires derivative works to be free, how is
qt's license practically more restrictive than the GPL?

Free software licenses seems sort of like good government:
personal freedom should be safeguarded at all costs except at
a threat to freedom itself. (You are not free to buy slaves.)

So, the question is, does qt's license really limit any more
than necessary to safegaurd its license? What can I do with
GPL code that I can't do with qt?

thanks,
josh