Re: Qt becomes Free Software

[luther maxime u-strasbg fr]

On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:18:50PM +0000, David Warnock wrote:
> ** Reply to message from James Smith <j-smith@physics.tamu.edu> on Wed, 18 Nov
> 1998 07:03:46 -0600
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately, it's equivalent to the GPL (in general), not the LGPL. 
> > Maybe I don't understand how Qt works, but I assume users can have
> > dynamic linking with their libraries.  If you read section 6 of their
> > license, you see that any program linking with Qt must be open sourced. 
> > There goes any commercial support, which IMHO would be nice.
> > 
> > Section 5 says we can run the non-open source programs, we just can't
> > develope them.  This is more restrictive than any GPL or LGPL.
> 
> Hang on a minute.
> 
> 1.  The complaint has been about the QT license and KDE. That is definately
> solved.

still it is not DFSG free, but then i think it would be ok to put it into
non-free. ...