Re: Free QT?

[Joel Dillon <emily cornholio new ox ac uk>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Joshua Spoerri wrote:

> 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?

  We can't modify Qt's libraries and then distribute them to other
people. IMHO the commercial license cost problem is the less
important aspect of the problem, although we don't really want
to discourage commercial products for linux either (even MS
doesn't actually require you to get a license to use the Windows
GUI API's ;)

	Jo